Attaway, William - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Criticism

Campbell, Jane. "Visions of Transcendence in W. E. B. DuBois's The Quest for the Silver Fleece and William Attaway's Blood on the Forge." In her Mythic Black Fiction: The Transformation of History, pp. 64-86. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986.

Argues that "both books present the plights of sharecropper and millworker. Both reveal the disenchantment attendant upon urban migration. Both employ the supernatural in their romances. And in both, Marxism enters into the conception of history."

Ellison, Ralph. "Transition." Negro Quarterly 1, No. 1 (Spring 1942): 87-92.

Mixed review of Blood on the Forge, in which Ellison states that while "Attaway has done several things well," he occasionally fails to clarify the major issues of the work.

Hamilton, Cynthia. "Work and Culture: The Evolution of Consciousness in...

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