Historical Fiction and the Black Atlantic Archive
US:
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Toni Morrison, Jazz
Toni Morrison, Paradise
Barbara Chase-Ribboud, Sally Hemmings
Octavia Butler, Kindred
Mat Johnson, Pym
Sadiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother
Sadiya Hartman, Venus in Two Acts
Nate Parker, Birth of a Nation (2016)
Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
Caribbean:
Marie Chauvet, Dance on the Volcano
Maryse Conde, I, Tituba
CLR James, Black Jacobins
Marlon James, Book of Night Women
UK:
Bernadine Evaristso, Blonde Roots
Many of these works imagine ways in which the history of the African diaspora lives or collides with history in the present moment. Kindred is a great example of the way in which time collapses across generations.