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Beloved influenced The Water Dancer
Added by Media Influence Map · 6 October 2026
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Ta-Nehisi Coates has called Toni Morrison a huge influence on The Water Dancer: a novel of slavery told through memory and the supernatural, where an enslaved man's power is bound to what he remembers of his mother.
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