Episode 6: Matthew Dischinger / Colson Whitehead Will Break You, Too

Flash Readings by the Brittain Fellows at Georgia Tech

Matthew Dischinger, a scholar of literatures of the American and global South, analyzes a scene from the South Carolina chapter of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead’s prize-winning novel set in the antebellum United States. His article, “States of Possibility,” about the novel's use of “speculative satire” is in the current special issue of The Global South, titled Engaging with the Poetics of Peripheralization. Read more at the Georgia Tech Writing and Communication Program's online journal TechSTYLE: b.gatech.edu/1oRln6H