Criticism

Cooke, Michael G. "Kinship: The Power of Association in Michael Harper and Eldridge Cleaver." In Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century: The Achievement of Intimacy, pp. 110-32. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

Examines representations of social bonding in African-American literature, showing that Soul on Ice portrays "not so much kinship as the need for kinship" since "the text has no active, substantial image for kinship."

Larrabee, Harold A. "The Varieties of Black Experience." New England Quarterly XLIII, No. 4 (December 1970): 638-45.

Reviews Soul on Ice, comparing Cleaver's career and race-relations philosophy to that of Malcolm X.

Review of Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver. Negro Digest XVII, No. 8 (June 1968): 37-9.

Praises Cleaver's "free-wheeling, turn-you-on" writing style and themes, focusing on his views about sex, James Baldwin, and young white radicals.

"The Didactic Rapist." Times Literary Supplement, No. 3446 (27 February 1969): 200.

Objects to the absence of "a certain necessary detachment" in Soul on Ice with respect to the subject of black oppression.

"Excluding the Middle." Times Literary Supplement, No. 3539 (25 December 1969): 1466.

Explores the political ramifications of Post-Prison Writings and Speeches.

Waldrep, Shelton. "'Being Bridges': Cleaver/Baldwin/Lorde and African-American Sexism and Sexuality." Journal of Homosexuality 26, Nos. 2/3 (1993): 167-80.

Analyzes Cleaver's critique of gender and sexuality in Soul on Ice, framing his remarks as negative values in the context of a race/sexuality/sexism paradigm developed by James Baldwin and revised by Audre Lorde.

Weinstein, James. "Since Malcolm's Death." Nation 209, No. 4 (11 August 1969): 118-19.

Assesses the political value of Post-Prison Writings and Speeches.