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The Underground Railroad is a historical fiction novel by American author Colson Whitehead, published by Doubleday in 2016. The alternate history novel tells the story of Cora, a slave in the Antebellum South during the 19th century, who makes a bid for freedom from her Georgia plantation by following the Underground Railroad, which the novel depicts as a rail transport system with safe houses ...
11 de mai. de 2012 · Havia muito em jogo. John Henry municiou-se de duas marretas, de dez quilos cada, e com uma em cada mão martelou. E martelou. E assim como a máquina também. E John Henry se esforçou e martelou cada vez mais rápido e cada vez mais forte e como um demônio avançou cada vez mais montanha adentro! O calor era insuportável e as nuvens de ...
The origin of the John Henry legend can be traced back to the late 19th century, during the height of railroad construction in the United States. According to folklore, John Henry was a steel driver—a manual laborer tasked with hammering steel drills into rock to create holes for explosives. Known for his exceptional strength and work ethic ...
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Analysis. The main character of John Henry Days, Colson Whitehead’s second novel, is a hack journalist, J. Sutter, involved in his own man-against-machine contest. The machine in this case is ...
John Henry Days thus becomes a sprawling investigation not only of how the John Henry legend has been made and remade, but also of why these revisions have come to pass. If, as Wood claims, the novel is a chiefly a satire of J. and his fellow journalists as “knights of negative faith” then one should note that their would-be champion – J. – frequently comments on his own inability to ...
By Colson Whitehead. 389 pp. New York: Doubleday. $24.95. olson Whitehead's first novel, ''The Intuitionist,'' was a lively comic fantasy about a New York City elevator inspector named Lila Mae Watson. The book established Whitehead's intelligence and originality as a novelist, but I wasn't too excited by the world of elevator inspection, and I ...
