Thomas Sigismund Stribling Summary

Critical Essay by The Dial The theme [of Birthright] is the anomalous position of the educated mulatto who desires to make the black race alive to its problems and its potentialities, in a Southern ni... Read more

Critical Essay by George J. Becker T. S. Stribling [seeks] to extract and analyze the essence of the real South, to find out through thoughtful examination what has made it what it is, and by implicat... Read more

Critical Essay by James E. Rocks [The] particular feature of Stribling's work—and the cause of his initial success, or perhaps notoriety—was his treatment of Negro-white relations... Read more

Critical Essay by Edward J. Piacentino [There are a number of] striking similarities between Stribling's [Vaiden Trilogy] and Absalom, Absalom!, which incidentally was published in 1936, two ye... Read more

Critical Essay by Charles Mcd. Puckette Mr. Stribling's "Birthright" some years ago was a real contribution to Southern literature, chiefly in that it was the first attempt by a n... Read more

Critical Essay by Jonathan Daniels With a bitter and veracious shaping of his rich material, T. S. Stribling has written in his new novel, "The Store," the story of a town and a man in t... Read more

Critical Essay by George Stevens Mr. Stribling has set out with the intention of embalming the South in a symbolic trilogy, which ["Unfinished Cathedral"] brings to a close. "Unfi... Read more

Critical Essay by Byrom Dickens Mr. Stribling's Unfinished Cathedral, the third novel in his trilogy of the social history of the South, has now been published. An examination of this trilogy a... Read more