The Machinery of Progress: review of Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

Thomas Knowles

The Machinery of Progress: review of Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

Thomas Knowles

Birmingham City University

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Abstract

The brutal depiction of the nineteenth-century slave economy of the Southern American States in this multiple prize-winning novel owes much to Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), earlier slave narratives as well as memoirs such as Northrop Fry’s Twelve Years a Slave (1853), and in particular to Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred (1979).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	162-164
Number of pages	3
Journal	Fantastika
Volume	2
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - Jul 2018
Externally published	Yes

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