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Black Womanist Time & Memory Lit x Films

Book and films holding the themes of community, time, temporality,foresight, memory, future(s), the past(s), motherhood, & Black womanhood. If you have suggestions for Black women, femme, girls, and non-binary writers, books, films, or stories to add submit here. 

Gloria Naylor

  • Mama Day

  • The Women of Brewster Place books and film series

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Toni Morrison

  • Beloved (book and film)

  • Jazz

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Tananarive Due

  • The Between

  • Like Daughter

  • Ghost Summer Stories

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Octavia Butler

  • Kindred 

  • The Patternist series 

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Rasheedah Phillips

  • Recurrence Plot (and Other Time Travel Tales)

  • The Telescoping Effect, Pt. 1

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Eve's Bayou

  • Written and directed by Cassi Lemmons

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Paule Marshall

  • Brown Girl. Brownstones

  • The Chosen Place, The Timeless People

  • Daughters

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Toni Cade Bambara

  • The Salt Eaters

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Alice Walker

  • Meridian

  • The Color Purple (book and film)

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Ursula K. LeGuin

  • The Black woman protagonist in The Lathe of Heaven

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The Wiz

  • Diana Ross as Dorothy

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Daughters of the Dust

  • Written and Directed by Julie Dash

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Beasts of the Southern Wild

  • Quvenzhane Wallis as Hushpuppy

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Sankofa

  • Written and Directed by Haile Gerima

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