A Study Guide for Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad"
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
2016
Introduction
American author Colson Whitehead, whose first novel was published in 1999, has intrigued readers anew with every book written since, constantly adapting, mixing, and even creating new styles, genres, and perspectives. From dystopian future to folkloric past, from soft nostalgia to raging zombies, he writes as if capable of anything.
What he was not always certain he was capable of—or ready for—was a slave narrative, for which he would have to confront a past, full of cruelty and violence, that most African Americans would prefer to leave behind. He had the seed of an idea for a narrative twist on the Underground Railroad back in 2000, but it would take him fifteen years to bring the novel revolving around that idea to full fruition. Quite literally taking the reader to new places in the history of slavery, by novel means, The Underground Railroad (2016) stands out for its inspired use of fantasy in a way not at all trivializing the tragedies of the horrible institution. He is especially concerned with readers' realizing not only how horrific slavery was back then but also how the institution has echoed over the years since then, through the twentieth century and beyond. Since part of Whitehead's intent is to fill in the blanks that white versions of slavery too often gloss over, the novel features appalling levels of violence—just as the South did—conveyed just graphically enough to make the circumstances clear, and as such is best suited to mature readers. The Underground Railroad won both the 2016 National Book Award and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize.
Author Biography
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead was born on November 6, 1969, in Manhattan, New York City. He traces his roots through a grandmother who arrived from Barbados—home to many a sugarcane plantation—in the 1920s and a grandfather who descended from Virginia slaves. That grandfather came to own a chain of funeral homes in New Jersey, making death a common around-the-house subject for Whitehead's mother. The family grew to appreciate horror films, and one of Whitehead's earliest literary inspirations was a Stephen King novel. He also adored X-Men and Spider-Man comics and other fantasy and science fiction works. In high school, he shifted gears upon realizing how powerful literary fiction could be, admiring writers ranging from the traditional novels of Charles Dickens and Fyodor Dostoyevsky to works by Ralph Ellison and Thomas Pynchon.
While in high school, Whitehead had the experience of being racially profiled. Minding his own business in a convenience store, he was approached by a police officer, handcuffed, and brought outside: a lady had been mugged just blocks away, and Whitehead was perhaps the first black teenager the police found. The victim immediately declared that Whitehead was not the culprit, and he was released. He would later acknowledge that he had been prepared for such an incident by his father, who realized the danger that can face African Americans traveling alone in white communities, or anywhere. The father also helped empower his son afterward by pointing out that it was within his rights to demand the officer's badge number, to report to the officer's superiors if appropriate.
Whitehead graduated from Trinity School and then, in 1991, from Harvard