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It was and still is very common for African-American authors to write texts that reflect upon each other. In The Signifying Monkey, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. carefully and thoroughly explained the way that authors review the text of authors and make it their own. Similarities between texts help the reader to understand how texts are signified upon each other. African-Americans had to write themselves in to the American literary genre. In the process, they developed a style and a genre of their own.
African-American women had a harder time writing themselves into the literary world. Because they were double minorities, it was often believed that they were incapable of producing quality literary works. Writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, and Alice Walker, however, have proven that women are capable of writing exceptional texts. These writers also shared the common task of showing the strengths as well as the weaknesses of African-American women through the characters......

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