Complex sentence: In the nineteenth century a more sympathetic portrayal became prominent, especially in America in novels and poems in which Hagar herself, or characters named Hagar, were depicted as unjustly suffering exiles.
Split into simpler sentences: In the nineteenth century a more sympathetic portrayal became prominent, especially in America. In novels and poems Hagar herself, or characters named Hagar, were depicted as unjustly suffering exiles.