The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Reference
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Author: William L. Andrews;Frances Smith Foster;Trudier Harris ISBN: 9780199839568
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Publication: January 16, 2001
Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA Language: English
Author: William L. Andrews;Frances Smith Foster;Trudier Harris
ISBN: 9780199839568
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication: January 16, 2001
Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
A breathtaking achievement this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range of writers-from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass from Zora Neale Hurston to Ralph Ellison and from Toni Morrison to August Wilson. It contains entries on major works (including synopses of novels) such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Richard Wright's Native Son and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. It also incorporates information on literary characters such as Bigger Thomas Coffin Ed Johnson Kunta Kinte Sula Peace as well as on character types such as Aunt Jemima Brer Rabbit John Henry Stackolee and the trickster. Icons of black culture are addressed including vivid details about the lives of Muhammad Ali John Coltrane Marcus Garvey Jackie Robinson John Brown and Harriet Tubman. Here too are general articles on poetry fiction and drama; on autobiography slave narratives Sunday School literature and oratory; as well as on a wide spectrum of related topics. Compact yet thorough this handy volume gathers works from a vast array of sources--from the black periodical press to women's clubs--making it one of the most substantial guides available on the growing exciting world of African American literature.
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A breathtaking achievement this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range of writers-from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass from Zora Neale Hurston to Ralph Ellison and from Toni Morrison to August Wilson. It contains entries on major works (including synopses of novels) such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Richard Wright's Native Son and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. It also incorporates information on literary characters such as Bigger Thomas Coffin Ed Johnson Kunta Kinte Sula Peace as well as on character types such as Aunt Jemima Brer Rabbit John Henry Stackolee and the trickster. Icons of black culture are addressed including vivid details about the lives of Muhammad Ali John Coltrane Marcus Garvey Jackie Robinson John Brown and Harriet Tubman. Here too are general articles on poetry fiction and drama; on autobiography slave narratives Sunday School literature and oratory; as well as on a wide spectrum of related topics. Compact yet thorough this handy volume gathers works from a vast array of sources--from the black periodical press to women's clubs--making it one of the most substantial guides available on the growing exciting world of African American literature.

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