The concise Oxford companion to African American literature

Resource Information

The work The concise Oxford companion to African American literature represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The concise Oxford companion to African American literature

Statement of responsibility

editors, William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, Trudier Harris

Title variation

African American literature

Contributor

• Oxford University Press
• Andrews, William L., 1946-
• Foster, Frances Smith
• Harris, Trudier

Subject

• African Americans in literature
• African Americans in literature -- Encyclopedias
• American literature -- African American authors
• American literature -- African American authors -- Encyclopedias
• Dictionnaires
• Electronic books
• Encyclopedias
• Encyclopédies
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
• Littérature américaine -- Auteurs noirs américains -- Encyclopédies
• Noirs américains dans la littérature -- Encyclopédies
• Ouvrages de référence

Genre

• Electronic books
• Encyclopedias
• Encyclopédies

Language

eng

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

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

BUF

Dewey number

810.8

Index

index present

LC call number

PS153.N5

LC item number

C59 2001b

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography
• encyclopedias