Madeline Zehnder is a postdoc at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she is a member of the DFG research group “The Literary and Epistemic History of Small Forms.” Her writing on race and materiality in 19th-century American literature and culture has appeared most recently in Commonplace, History Today, and American Literature.
Madeline Zehnder
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Subterranean Worlds and Liberatory Futures
The metaphor of the underground as political is rooted in the spatial undergrounds of nineteenth-century America.
