6/20/2023 0 Comments Mindscape by andrea hairstonInstead, she gives birth to an angry baby girl with hair and skin the color of sand. A woman who has survived the annihilation of her village and a terrible rape by an enemy general wanders into the desert, hoping to die. In a post-apocalyptic Africa, the world has changed in many ways yet in one region, genocide between tribes still bloodies the land. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. In Colson Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood-where greater pain awaits. This Pulitzer Prize winner is something of an alternate history, as opposed to being strict science fiction.Ĭora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia.
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