Review: Soul on Ice
Avis de journaliste - Kirkus ReviewsCleaver writes well, with remarkable assurance and without most of the mannerisms of a young self-taught writer--much less a young Negro writer, which he is--an ex-Muslim who served time for marijuana and rape, putting out most of Soul on Ice in jail. The essays offer a constellation of discrete insights into black militancy and white society. His general credo: ""The racial problem can no longer be solved in isolation,"" for even if ""Whitey"" wanted to eradicate all evil overnight, the U.S. political economy wouldn't permit it. He discusses pertinent phenomena from New Left and New Right (both ""the spawn of the Negro revolution"") to Cassius Clay (in the context of Negro atheletes' prior roles). His mistakes are fascinating, too, as when he overrates the alienation of young whites. His letters from prison to his lawyer, Beverly Axelrod, will embarrass even sympathetic readers, however; they deal at violently introspective length with black men's craving for white women. All this adds up to some invidious comparisons: memoirs to rival those of Piri Thomas or Claude Brown without their latent self-congratulation; Mailer's iconoclasm without his neo-euphuism; a SNCC indignation talking up, not down, Baldwin's capacity to transcribe experience into social terms (Cleaver criticizes him, but he seems a non-activist spokesman of this decad as as Baldwin was of the last). The book deals with the important things better than 99.4% of the current discussions of race relations. If Cleaver keeps his style under control, his emotional honesty out in front, his intellect on the make, he may end up truly first-rate.
Review: Soul on Ice
Avis d'utilisateur - Elizabeth Trundle - Goodreads“Too much agreement kills a chat.” –Eldridge Cleaver According to this book, which is filed under “autobiography,” Eldridge Cleaver was a rapist. I don't go around reading books by rapists. Still, it ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Soul on Ice
Avis d'utilisateur - GoodreadsThis book initially scared the shit out of me! (probably because I am a white woman and when I read his feelings on getting back at the white man through pillaging and raping white women, I was like ...
Review: Soul on Ice
Avis d'utilisateur - GoodreadsThis book is a remarkable autobiographical portrait of a soul wrought with love, pain, desire, and redemption. Cleaver confronts the truth head-on, with no apologies or excuses, and his words ...
Review: Soul on Ice
Avis d'utilisateur - Miles Winston - GoodreadsI feel compelled to try to negate the overwhelmingly negative atmosphere on this page of Goodreads reviews, and to try to do so as convincingly as one person can amidst such abundant ignorance. There ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Soul on Ice
Avis d'utilisateur - Dave - GoodreadsSoul on Ice gets five stars for intensity, that's for sure. Cleaver is sometimes insensitive, ugly, and mean. A few of his essays evoke the kind of interior nausea that accompanies accounts of the ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Soul on Ice
Avis d'utilisateur - James Brandon - GoodreadsJames Brandon AP English, Period 4 10/14/10 Soul On Ice Review Born, raised and living in one of the most tumultous periods of race relations the United States has ever seen, Eldridge Cleaver was ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Soul on Ice
Avis d'utilisateur - john boyack - GoodreadsBrother Cleaver's got some Golden! messages in here, still relevant today and perhaps even more so. My favorite gems are buried in these: 'On Becoming' 'Initial Reactions on the Assassination of ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Soul on Ice
Avis d'utilisateur - Steven Salaita - GoodreadsSoul on Ice is an important document of a particular moment in American history (one that is still important because it is in many ways still alive), but I'm not much of a fan. Too much rationalizing ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Soul on Ice
Avis d'utilisateur - Dave Logghe - GoodreadsWhat began as a genuinely compelling look at a young man with a lot of anger and little direction, became a story of a man completely sure of himself, and almost entirely unrelatable. I definitely ... Consulter l'avis complet
