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Den unge slave Cora vokser op på en bomuldsplantage i Georgia under umenneskelige forhold og et dobbeltpres som udstødt blandt sine egne. Cora overtales af slaven Caesar til at flygte og opsøge "den underjordiske jernbane".
shaunie: Morrison's masterpiece is a clear influence on Whitehead's book, and his is one of the very few I've read which bears comparison with it. In fact I'd go so far as to say it's also a masterpiece, a stunningly good read!
elenchus: That popular culture phenomenon of the uncanny twins, two works appearing together yet unrelated in authorship, production, inspiration. Why do they appear together? In this case, each is compelling enough to read based on their own, but for me irresistable now they've shown up onstage at the same time. Ben Winters's Underground Airlines a bizarro underground railroad, updated (for reasons left implicit) for air travel; Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad making the escape trail a concrete reality. Each also addresses our world, in between stations.… (mere)
Fremragende, velskrevet beskrivelse af slavernes forfærdelige forhold i sydstaterne. Den underjordiske jernbane, som var en helt utrolig jernbane under jorden, som slaverne brugte til at flygte nordpå. Der afdækkes grusomme forhold. Meget rystende skildringer. ( )
Der Roman des afroamerikanischen Autors Colson Whitehead über die Sklaverei in den USA des 19. Jahrhunderts kommt in deutscher Übersetzung nun gerade recht, um auf den heutigen Rassismus zu verweisen.
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The first time Caesar approached Cora about running north, she said no.
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. . . for justice may be slow and invisible, but it always renders its true verdict in the end.
‘I’m what botanists call a hybrid,’ he said the first time Cora heard him speak. ‘A mixture of two different families. In flowers, such a concoction pleases the eye. When that amalgamation takes its shape in flesh and blood, some take great offense. In this room we recognize it for what it is -- a new beauty come into the world, and it is in bloom all around us.’
Georgina said the children make of it what they can. What they don't understand today, they might tomorrow. 'The Declaration is like a map. You trust that it's right, but you only know by going out and testing it yourself.'
In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America.
She didn’t understand the words, most of them at any rate, but created equal was not lost on her. The white men who wrote it didn’t understand it either, if all men did not truly mean all men. Not if they snatched away what belonged to other people, whether it was something you could hold in your hand, like dirt, or something you could not, like freedom.
“And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are."
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She wondered where he escaped from, how bad it was, and how far he traveled before he put it behind him.
Den unge slave Cora vokser op på en bomuldsplantage i Georgia under umenneskelige forhold og et dobbeltpres som udstødt blandt sine egne. Cora overtales af slaven Caesar til at flygte og opsøge "den underjordiske jernbane".
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