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Whitehead said, "My parents taught me that one, I can do whatever I want in the world if I put my mind to it, and two, the white world will be trying to destroy, dismantle your hopes, and possibly kill you at the same time." It was grisly news of a once-segregated reform school...
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Colson Whitehead's latest novel, The Underground Railroad (2016) is a take on both the slave narratives of the 19thcentury and the "neo-slave narratives" of the late 20thcentury. It mimics these genres' ambivalence towards the core American belief in the pursuit of happiness: flight is the ...
“Race is one of the things I write about... But slavery, I’ve avoided it for a long time. It seemed a very daunting subject,” Whitehead said Tuesday on “CBS This Morning.”“I first came up with the idea of the book 16 years ago. I was sitting on my couch, and I think ...
But mostly, it’s a joy to read, another dazzling novel from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning Colson Whitehead.
Since it debuted in August 2016, the novel has received rave reviews and praise, includinga Kirkus Prize nominationand aNational Book Award nomination. Yet, despite being such a unique and singular novel, there are a number of books that helped shape Colson Whitehead'sThe Underground Railroad. ...
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Colson Whitehead is the author of The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club 2016 selection), a MacArthur Fellow, and Pulitzer Prize winner.
Whitehead finished “The Underground Railroad” well before Donald Trump’s election but now finds parallels with the present. “I think the book deals with white supremacy as a foundational error in the country’s history and that foundational error is being played out now in the White House,...