Further Reading
- "Excluding the Middle," Times Literary Supplement, No. 3539 (25 December 1969): 1466. (Explores the political ramifications of Post-Prison Writings and Speeches.)
- "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.)
- Cooke, Michael G., "Kinship: The Power of Association in Michael Harper and Eldridge Cleaver," Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century: The Achievement of Intimacy, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984, pp. 110-32. (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.)
- 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.)
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