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The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, which follows Cora, a teenage runaway slave, as she travels through America after escaping a cruel owner and a brutal existence on a plantation, pursued all the while by the feared slave catcher Ridgeway. In her escape, she uses a subterranean railway manned by free former slaves and sympathetic whites, making the novel an intriguing reimagining of the real system of safe houses and transport routes in the antebellum USA.
The Underground Railroad is Colson Whitehead’s best-known novel, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2017.
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COLSON WHITEHEAD
AMERICAN NOVELIST
Born in New York City in 1969.Notable works:John Henry Days (2001), novelThe Colossus of New York (2003), historical non-fictionZone One (2011), zombie novelColson Whitehead is an American novelist from New York. He grew up with three siblings in a very privileged household and studied at Harvard. Whilst there he took classes in theatre studies and African American studies because he found the English department to be too conservative, with a heavy focus on pre-20th century literature. After university, he decided to become a journalist and wrote for The Village Voice while writing what would become his first novel, The Intuitionist.
Whitehead was catapulted to fame with the 2016 publication of his sixth novel The Underground Railroad. As a result, Whitehead was included in Time magazine’s 2017 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. His article in Time was written by Oprah Winfrey, who had included The Underground Railroad in her influential book club. In between writing novels, Whitehead has taught creative writing at numerous institutions, including Princeton and NYU. His next novel, The Nickel Boys, is set in Jim Crow-era Florida and is due for publication in the summer of 2019. Whitehead has two children.
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
A HISTORICAL NOVEL
Genre: historical fictionReference edition: Whitehead, C. (2016) The Underground Railroad. London: Little, Brown.1stedition: 2016Themes: slavery, African American history, violence, race, communityThe Underground Railroad tells the story of Cora, a teenage girl and runaway slave, as she escapes her cotton plantation and makes her way north. The novel is divided into 12 chapters that are named after either characters or geographical locations (mostly states). The chapters named after states (and in one case, the North) detail Cora’s time in each location, while the shorter chapters named after characters tell the backstory and fate (sometimes both) of said characters.
The novel is an example of the alternate history genre due to its literalisation of the Underground Railroad. This is a term used to describe the secret network that established routes and safe houses for escaped slaves in 19th-century America. In the novel, however, Whitehead depicts this network as being inclusive of a literal subterranean railway system, complete with trains. The novel became a number-one bestseller upon publication and won several literary awards, including the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is set to be adapted into a television series.
