First African American Woman to Receive Nobel Prize for Literature

Toni Morrison was the first African American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. In her novels, Toni Morrison focuses on the experience of black Americans, particularly emphasizing black women's experience in an unjust society and the search for cultural identity. She uses fantasy and mythic elements along with realistic depiction of racial, gender and class conflict.

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