The Oxford Companion to African American Literature

Author: William L. Andrews
Secondary Author: Frances Smith Foster
ISBN: 9780195065107

The Souls of Black Folks, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Invisible Man, Notes of a Native Son, 'Letter from Birmingham Jail', I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Piano Lesson, Beloved - the work of African American writers has been a vital part of our nation's literary heritage for over two hundred and fifty years. Now, 'The Oxford Companion to African American Literature' provides the first comprehensive one-volume reference work devoted to this rich tradition, surveying the length and breadth of black literary history, focusing in particular on the lives and careers of more than 400 writers. Here indeed is the pantheon of African American writers - Phillis Wheatley and Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois, Gwendolyn Brooks and Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen, James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, John Edgar Wideman and August Wilson, Jamaica Kincaid and Gloria Naylor, Stanley Crouch and Cornel West, and hundreds mo

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publish Date: 1997

Subjects: Literary Criticism / General

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