Write an essay-using Morrison’s observation as a springboard for your central position-that examines the extent to which Ralph Ellison in Invisible Man and Ntzoke Shange in for colored girls succeed in breaking the very silences to which Morrison refers thereby “expand[ing] the traditional canon to include classic Afro-American works.”

In “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature,” Toni Morrison declares: “Silences are
being broken, lost things have been found, and at least two generations of scholars are disentangling received knowledge
from the apparatus of control, most notably those who are engaged in investigations of French and British colonialist
literature, American slave narratives, and the delineation of the Afro-American literary tradition.” Write an essay-using
Morrison’s observation as a springboard for your central position-that examines the extent to which Ralph Ellison in Invisible
Man and Ntzoke Shange in for colored girls succeed in breaking the very silences to which Morrison refers thereby “expand[ing]
the traditional canon to include classic Afro-American works.”

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