Notable African-American Titles, 2016-2017
The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead (Doubleday, out now) Winner of the 2016 National Book Award for fiction, Whitehead's fictional slave narrative turns the metaphorical Underground Railroad into a literal railway, with trains and conductors in underground stations, that his heroine, the...
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| Published in: | Publishers Weekly 2016-11, Vol.263 (48), p.41 |
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| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead (Doubleday, out now) Winner of the 2016 National Book Award for fiction, Whitehead's fictional slave narrative turns the metaphorical Underground Railroad into a literal railway, with trains and conductors in underground stations, that his heroine, the runaway slave Cora, uses in a desperate attempt to escape the horrors of slavery. March: Book Three John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell (Top Shelf, out now) Winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature--the first graphic novel to win a National Book Award--the concluding third volume of Lewis's civil rights graphic memoir documents the courageous and heroic struggle for racial justice in America. Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad Jeanine Michna-Bales (Princeton Architectural Press, Feb. 2017) The product of 10 years of research, this book of photographs captures images from the plantation states of Mississippi and Louisiana and from Indiana and Canada, capturing what might have been the visual experience of a runaway slave. |
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| ISSN: | 0000-0019 2150-4008 |