Winter in the Blood | Criticism
- Bryan Aubrey
Aubrey holds a Ph.D. in English and has published many articles on twentieth century literature. In this essay, Aubrey analyzes the importance of Native American consciousness in the novel, as seen in the characters of the narrator and Yellow Calf.
- Jim Charles and Richard Predmore
In the following essay excerpt, Charles and Predmore describe aspects of Winter in the Blood amenable to formalistic analysis and crossliterary teaching.
- Alan R. Velie
In the following essay, Velie describes how Winter in the Blood, rather than being a "protest novel," meets all the requirements—characterization, ending, and tone—that define a dramatic comedy.
- A. Lavonne Ruoff
In the following essay excerpt, Ruoff analyzes through a cultural context the narrator's "relationships with and characterizations of" the females of Winter in the Blood.
- Kathleen M. Sands
In the following essay, Sands describes how Welch develops and communicates the narrator's "sense of dislocation and alienation through the episodic nature of the narrative" and the incompleteness of the storytelling in Winter in the Blood.
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