Daughter

Kara Walker, Untitled, 1996, cut paper, watercolor, and graphite on canvas, 69½ x 66”. All images courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.

Shot from Beloved (1998 film) carolinekaypicart.com

1: “Sethe” who “will carry the burden of her mother’s dispossession and inherit her dishonored condition, and she will have her own mark soon enough, as will her daughter Beloved” (Hartman, 80); 2: One who “understands everything already,” who the milk is for, who comes back (Morrison, 199), one you protect, one you love too much, a mother’s face, a mother, one who plays, a ghost (Morrison, 215); 3: Baby Suggs, Sethe, Denver, Beloved

Also, Daughters of the Dust: Julie Dash's 1991 film which covers the afterlife of the Igbo Landing Suicides. The first line of the film is spoken by the grandmother, Nana Pezant, she says, "I am the first and the last. I am the honored one and the scorned one. I am the whore and the holy one. I am the wife and the virgin. I am the barren one and many are my daughters. I am the silence that you can not understand. I am the utterance of my name.”

Use: “I got a tree on my back and a haint in my house, and nothing in between but the daughter I am holding in my arms” (Morrison)

See also Mother