Memory is a superpower in Ta-Nehisi Coates' novel about the Underground Railroad

Memory is a superpower in Ta-Nehisi Coates' novel about the Underground Railroad

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Längd5 min
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FörlagNewsHour Productions
ISBN9781094243351

To make the case for reparations for the toll of slavery, acclaimed writer

Ta-Nehisi Coates has offered forceful advocacy and powerful data-driven

argument. With his first novel, The Water Dancer, he uses fiction to

illuminate the Underground Railroad. Coates joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss

the difference between history and myth, and his protagonist's superpower.

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