Blood on the Forge - William Alexander Attaway

This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they encounter a world of surreal devastation, crowded with dogfighters, whores, cripples, strikers, and scabs. Keenly sensitive to character, prophetic in its depiction of environmental degradation and globalized labor, Attaway's novel is an unprecedneted confrontation with the realities of American life, offering an apocalyptic vision of the melting pot not as an icon of hope but as an instrument of destruction.

data wydania

2005 (data przybliżona)

ISBN

9781590171349

liczba stron

237

słowa kluczowe

literatura afroamerykańska; industrializacja; przemiany społeczne

język

angielski