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- Title
Genre Trouble and History's Miseries in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad.
- Authors
Li, Stephanie
- Abstract
A literary criticism of the book "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead is presented. It mentions that underground railroad imagined by him as a subterranean system of trains and stations spread across the antebellum South does not deposit Cora and her companions in the free North. It mentions that Whitehead fails to contextualize his literalized underground railroad but also because he betrays the very truths he asserts as critical to his vision of humanity.
- Subjects
UNDERGROUND Railroad: A Novel, The (Book : Whitehead); WHITEHEAD, Colson, 1969-; SUBWAYS; RAILROAD stations; HUMANITY
- Publication
MELUS, 2019, Vol 44, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0163-755X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/melus/mlz010