... , "Negro" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" depicted the 1920's as a time where African Americans were reclaiming their rights and retaliating against their discrimination. Zora Neale Hurston was a writer that depicted the change in women's roles and her story "Sweat" and essay titled "You Don't Know Us Negroes" showed how women were rebelling against their inequality and taking a firm stand on what they believed ... and there were a great number of new "critically acclaimed" female writers, poets, and artists. Some such women were Willa Cather, Nikki Giovanni, Anne Tyler, Anne Sexton, Sy...

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