The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

William L. Andrews (USA)E. Maynard Adams Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.Frances Smith Foster (USA)Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies, Emory University.Trudier Harris (USA)J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"Andrews, Foster Smith and Harris have come together again to co-edit this concise edition....It has...reproduced in full the excellent critical articles, entries on major works, synopses of novels that made the parent volume such a valuable reference tool, and has updated the bibliographies with the titles of works published since 1997....[A] pleasure to have, and consult over and over again."--Kliatt"This abbreviated version...retains the parent work's devotion to highlighting the writers and writings that have made African American literature valuable and distinctive."--Choice"A comprehensive collection of African American writers includes contributions from Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and many others."--Forecast"Here you'll find information on such well-known writers as Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, as well as summaries of major works....Character types such as Aunt Jemima are discussed, along with such literary characters as Kunta Kinte."--The Orlando Sentinel