5/24/2023 0 Comments The water dancer goodreads![]() ![]() For one, there are parallels between the protagonist, Hiram, and the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass. In common with Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, which draws on the life of Harriet Jacobs, an enslaved woman who hid for years in a low-ceilinged attic in which she couldn’t stand, The Water Dancer makes use of a number of real-life narratives. ![]() As a cultural analyst, Coates is noted for his stylish prose, but here the writing is spare Little wonder, then, that slavery is the subject of his first novel. Like Baldwin, Coates’s elegant nonfiction is haunted by the dark legacy of the American civil war. ![]()
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