Rutgers Reads 2018: The Underground Railroad

Resources on The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, first-year required reading at Rutgers University-Camden.

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Underground Railroad author Colson Whitehead at the Brooklyn Film Festival. Photo by Flickr user editrrix, shared without changes under a CC BY-SA 2.0 license.

Scholarly Articles

Dischinger, Matthew. “States of Possibility in Colson Whitehead’s: The Underground Railroad.” The Global South, vol. 11, no. 1, 2017, pp. 82–99.
Kornbluh, Anna. “We Have Never Been Critical: Toward the Novel as Critique.” Novel, vol. 50, no. 3, Duke University Press, NC & IL, pp. 397–408

Local Underground Railroad Sites & History

Parallel Communities: The Underground Railroad in South Jersey by Dennis C. Rizzo
ISBN: 9781596295421
Publication Date: 2008-10-23
Underground Railroad in New York and New Jersey by William J. Switala
ISBN: 9780811732581
Publication Date: 2006-06-26
Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania by William J. Switala
ISBN: 9780811735186
Publication Date: 2008-08-21

Local Places to Visit

Video: Interviews with the Author

Video: The Underground Railroad in New Jersey

Influences: Historical Slave Narratives

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs; Jennifer Fleischner (Editor)
ISBN: 9780312442668
Publication Date: 2009-07-27
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight (Editor); Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 0312257376
Publication Date: 2002-12-25
Slave Narratives by William L. Andrews; Henry Louis Gates
ISBN: 1883011760
Publication Date: 2000-01-15
Twleve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup; Earl Edwards (Editor)
ISBN: 9781492389545
Publication Date: 2013-09-11
The Underground Rail Road by William N. Still
ISBN: 0937548553
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Up from Slavery by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (Editor); Booker T. Washington
ISBN: 0312394489
Publication Date: 2002-09-20
Women's Slave Narratives by Annie L. Burton
ISBN: 0486112926
Publication Date: 2012-03-02

Genre: Magical Realism

Magical Realism by Lois Parkinson Zamora (Editor); Wendy B. Faris (Editor)
ISBN: 0822316404
Publication Date: 1995-11-14
A Companion to Magical Realism by Stephen M. Hart; Wen-Chin Ouyang (Editor)
ISBN: 1855661209
Publication Date: 2005-11-20
Moments of Magical Realism in Us Ethnic Literatures by Richard Perez (Editor)
ISBN: 1283947447
Publication Date: 2012-01-01