Reading Circle 12: ‚Underground Railroad‘, by Colson Whitehead
13.12.2017
‚The Underground Railroad‘ (2016) by Colson Whitehead
Alex, Georg, Sandra and Andrew discuss and read from an extraordinary novel.
‚The Underground Railroad‘ is about a slave named Cora who grows up on a Georgia plantation. At the age of 15 she manages to escape with a fellow-slave, Caesar. In the novelist’s imagination, the railroad they escape by is not simply a network of vital contacts as they work their way north through a benevolent South Carolina the brutal cruelty of North Carolina. This is literally a railroad with underground tracks and locomotives making stops in different states. The real merges with the fantastic, historical chronology is subverted. The slaves are brutalized, traumatized, dehumanized. Cora is constantly pursued by the brutal, avenging slave-catcher, Ridgeway.
This historical phantasmagoria is a compelling read. The book is almost an allegory about different Americas from the mid-19th. century into the early 20th.
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