Discuss some of the literary achievements of African-American women in the late twentieth century
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
Answer:
1. Point out that a new wave of African-American women novelists emerged as early as 1977, when Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon became a Book-of-the-Month-Club selection.
2. Note that Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Sally Hemings (1979) gained significant attention.
3. Note that Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for The Color Purple, Rita Dove was named poet laureate, and Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
4. Conclude that the commercial success of African-American women writers illustrates the way that African-American cultural contributions have moved to the center of American culture in general.
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