At the end of 20th century, the black female writer Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize (in 1993) and from then on, black literature strode forward toward the main trend of American literature.

• 在20世纪末期，黑人女性作家托尼·莫里森获得了诺贝尔文学奖(1993)，黑人文学也由边缘迈进美国文学的主流。