William Attaway's Blood On The Forge

Such has been the preoccupation with reading black narratives in protest, naturalist, socialist and proletarian mode that early have these been approached purely from eco-critical perspective. Many of these narratives coming from the pens of those hailing for black familiar sharecropping, other often had alternative perspective to offer. Thomas Berry, who explored the spiritual estrangement from the earth of the western peoples, also ignored. The destruction of nature formed the major theme of which Attaway based his migration novel. Though largely ignored Afro-American narrative and its abundant preoccupation with environmental issues is best illustrated by William Attaway in Blood on the Forge (1941).