In literature, African American writers have been telling the story of their multifaceted experience and history. ... These stereotypes demoralized African American women's position in the mainstream society and portrayed African American women as non-human beings. African American women writers helped with the setback of these stereotypes and African American women have been develop to be seen as "living human being[s] with [their] own desires and needs" (Christian, Black Feminist Criticism 16). Within the novels, Toni Morrison presents the complex stories of African American e...

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