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Title The concise Oxford companion to African American literature / editors, William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, Trudier Harris.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 488 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Presents more than 400 biographies of authors, critics, literary characters, and historical figures, and 150 plot summaries of major works. Covers a range of writers from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, and Ralph Ellison to Toni Morrison. Contains entries on major works (including synopses of novels) and also incorporates information on literary characters, as well as on character types such as Aunt Jemima and Brer Rabbit. Looks at icons of black culture, including Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, Marcus Garvey, Jackie Robinson, John Brown, and Harriet Tubman. Includes general articles on poetry, fiction, and drama and on autobiography, slave narratives, Sunday School literature, and oratory, as well as other related topics.
Contents Introduction; Contributors; The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature; Appendix; Editors; Index.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject American literature -- African American authors -- Encyclopedias.
African Americans in literature -- Encyclopedias.
African Americans.
African Americans in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Dictionnaires.
Encyclopédies.
Ouvrages de référence.
African Americans in literature. (OCoLC)fst00799727
American literature -- African American authors. (OCoLC)fst00807114
Genre/Form Encyclopedias. (OCoLC)fst01423798
Added Author Andrews, William L., 1946-
Foster, Frances Smith.
Harris, Trudier.
Oxford University Press.
Added Title African American literature
Other Form: Print version: Concise Oxford companion to African American literature. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001 019513883X (DLC) 00065201 (OCoLC)45394089
ISBN 9780198031758 (electronic bk.)
0198031750 (electronic bk.)
9780199916498 (electronic book)
0199916497 (electronic book)
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