Literary Free Jazz? Mumbo Jumbo and : Language and Meaning - Keren Omry Revolutionary Suicide in Toni Morrison's Fiction - Katy Ryan, African American Review Cutterįrom Faulkner to Morrison: "Jazzing Up" the American Nobel Prize Heritage - Cathy C. The Story Must Go On and On: The Fantastic, Narration, and Intertextuality in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Jazz - Martha J. Singing the Blues/Reclaiming Jazz: Toni Morrison and Cultural Mourning - Roberta Rubenstein Periodizing Toni Morrison's work from 'The Bluest Eye' to 'Jazz': the importance of 'Tar Baby' - Malin Walther Pereira Re-Membering the Song of My Self - African-American Self-Formation in Toni Morrison's Jazz - Wei-ching Lai Recreating the Black Self: The Hidden Text in Toni Morrison's Jazz - Tang Soo Ping Golden Gray and the Talking Book: Identity as a Site of Artful Construction in Morrison's Jazz - Caroline Brown Traces of Derrida in Toni Morrison's 'Jazz'" - Philip Page, AfAmReview Toni Morrison's Jazz and the City - Anne Marie Paquet-Deyris, AfAmReview Women's Classic Blues in Toni Morrison's Jazz - Tracy Sherard, Genders Variations on a Theme: The Role of Music in Toni Morrison's Jazz - Tone Berre Like the music of its title, it is a dazzlingly lyric play on elemental themes, as soaring and daring as a Charlie Parker solo, as heartbreakingly powerful as the blues." (Back Cover) Passionate and profound, Jazz brings us back and forth in time, in a narrative assembled from the hopes, fears and realities of black urban life."Jazz is the story of a triangle of passion, jealousy, murder and redemption, of sex and spirituality, of slavery and liberation, of country and city, of being male and female, African American, and above all of being human. Joe Trace – in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband – shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas.Īt the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse. Morrison's voice transcends colour and creed and she has become one of America's outstanding post-war writers’ Guardian ‘ Jazz blazes with an intensity more usually found in tragic poetry of the past.
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