"Underground Railroad" on Amazon Prime
“Underground Railroad”, series release on Amazon Prime, from May 14, 2021. © Amazon Original
By: Sophie Torlotin Follow |
Elisabeth Lequeret Follow
2 min
In the series "Underground Railroad", Oscar winner Barry Jenkins delivers a stylish fresco, haunted by slave America.
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Composed of ten episodes, the series follows the extraordinary journey of Cora, 16, a slave in a cotton plantation in Georgia, abandoned by her mother who fled.
When she learns about the Underground Railroad - which allowed many slaves to flee, helped by the abolitionists in particular - the young woman will finally touch freedom.
(On Amazon Prime from May 14, 2021).
We talk about it with our 3 guests:
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Rhoda Tchokokam,
critic and founder of the
Atoubaa
platform
, co-author of “
Dérangeur, a small lexicon in the process of decolonization
” (Éditions Hors d'Attache)
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Rose Ndengue,
historian and socio-politicalist, specialist in the mobilizations of African and Afro-descendant women in a colonial and postcolonial context, teacher at the University of Rouen
and
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Gregory Pierrot,
professor of African-American literature at the University of Connecticut.
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