The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

• New concise edition of the Oxford Companion to African American Literature provides the biographies and plot summaries updated since the Companion's publication.
• New concise paperback will broaden market to general readers and students.
• To pub. in time for African American History Month (February).
• Companion hardcover sold over 12,000 worldwide since 1997.
• Companion named a 1998 Outstanding Academic Book by Choice.

Readership: African American Literature and Studies

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