... American literature than they had been at the beginning of the century. "Furthermore, the existence of the body of African American literature from the Renaissance inspired writers such as Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright to pursue literary careers in the late 1930s and the 1940s. "(Locke, Page 95) The outpouring of African American literature of the 1980s and 1990s by such ... ...

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