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Cora, a slave on a Georgia cotton plantation, faces unimaginable horrors, especially as she matures into womanhood. An outcast among her peers, her life takes a turn when Caesar, a newcomer from Virginia, introduces her to the Underground Railroad. Together, they decide to escape, but their plan goes awry when Cora kills a white boy trying to capture her. They find a station and head north, but they are relentlessly pursued. In this innovative narrative, the Underground Railroad is depicted as a real network of tracks and tunnels beneath the South. Their first stop is South Carolina, which initially appears to offer safety, but hides a sinister scheme against its black residents. The relentless slave catcher Ridgeway is hot on their trail, forcing Cora to flee once more. Her journey becomes a harrowing odyssey across states, each revealing different facets of freedom and oppression. Cora's experiences echo those of the protagonist in Gulliver’s Travels, as she navigates a landscape filled with unique terrors and challenges. The narrative captures the brutal history of African Americans from the slave trade to the present, blending adventure with a profound meditation on shared history and the quest for liberation.
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The underground railroad, Colson Whitehead
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- Publicado en
- 2017
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- Título
- The underground railroad
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Colson Whitehead
- Editorial
- Fleet
- Publicado en
- 2017
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN10
- 0525435700
- ISBN13
- 9780525435709
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Novelas históricas, EE.UU., Literatura americana, Siglo XIX, Novelas sociales, África, Violencia, América, Ferrocarriles / Trenes, Escape, Raza, Racismo, Literatura afroamericana, Libertad, Historia alternativa, Sur de Estados Unidos, Adaptado a serie, Esclavitud, Esclavos, Georgia, Premio Pulitzer, Carolina del Norte, Negros, Arresto, Plantaciones
- Primera publicación
- 2016
- Título original
- The Underground Railroad
- Calificación
- 4,15 de 5
- Descripción
- Cora, a slave on a Georgia cotton plantation, faces unimaginable horrors, especially as she matures into womanhood. An outcast among her peers, her life takes a turn when Caesar, a newcomer from Virginia, introduces her to the Underground Railroad. Together, they decide to escape, but their plan goes awry when Cora kills a white boy trying to capture her. They find a station and head north, but they are relentlessly pursued. In this innovative narrative, the Underground Railroad is depicted as a real network of tracks and tunnels beneath the South. Their first stop is South Carolina, which initially appears to offer safety, but hides a sinister scheme against its black residents. The relentless slave catcher Ridgeway is hot on their trail, forcing Cora to flee once more. Her journey becomes a harrowing odyssey across states, each revealing different facets of freedom and oppression. Cora's experiences echo those of the protagonist in Gulliver’s Travels, as she navigates a landscape filled with unique terrors and challenges. The narrative captures the brutal history of African Americans from the slave trade to the present, blending adventure with a profound meditation on shared history and the quest for liberation.