It seems that you have forgotten to attach the essential options for this question, so I had to look for it. Anyway, here is the answer. Before postmodernism, the kind of authors that <span>mostly made up the literary canon in the United States are white men or white male authors. Hope this helps.</span>
Before Postmodernism the authors that made up the literary canon in the United States were mostly white men.
This literary movement called Modernism (or modernist literature) had a non-traditional style of verse and poetry. The writers from that time felt traditional poetry was outdated, and that new forms of expression and representation had to be done to express new sensibilities and beliefs.
The reasons of the rise of nativism in the 1920s and 19030s were the increase of immigrants, the call of the citizens arguing the loss of access to opportunities and the bigger difficulties they suffered due to the competitive environment.
The perceived grievances of al-Qaeda against the United States and its allies include all of the following except "<span>c. U.S. failure to support the mujahideen in their war against the Soviet Union," since in fact the US did support this group. </span>