Read 'Jazz' by Toni Morrison available from Rakuten Kobo. Sign up today and get $5 off your first purchase. In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door. Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019. Jazz by Toni Morrison in DOC, FB2, RTF download e-book. Welcome to our site, dear reader! All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of it's content suppliers and protected by US and international copyright laws.
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Author | Toni Morrison |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Historical novel |
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf Inc. |
Publication date | 1992 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 229 |
ISBN | 0-679-41167-4 |
Preceded by | Beloved |
Followed by | Paradise |
Jazz is a 1992historical novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison. The majority of the narrative takes place in Harlem during the 1920s; however, as the pasts of the various characters are explored, the narrative extends back to the mid-19th-century American South.
From a general summary to chapter summaries to explanations of famous quotes, the SparkNotes Jazz Study Guide has everything you need to ace quizzes, tests, and essays.
The novel forms the second part of Morrison's Dantesque trilogy on African-American history, beginning with Beloved (1987) and ending with Paradise (1997).
Narrative style and themes[edit]
The novel deliberately mirrors the music of its title, with various characters 'improvising' solo compositions that fit together to create a whole work. The tone of the novel also shifts with these compositions, from bluesy laments to up beat, sensual ragtime. The novel also utilizes the call-and-response style of jazz music, allowing the characters to explore the same events from different perspectives.
This book also features 'untrustworthy narrators' whose emotions and perspective colour the story. Narration switches every so often to the viewpoint of various characters, inanimate objects, and even concepts. The book's final narrator is widely believed to be Morrison or perhaps the book itself.[1]
Legacy[edit]
Jazz was Morrison’s most recently published work when she was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature[2]. “[Morrison] uses a device which is akin to the way jazz itself is played… the result is a richly complex, sensuously conveyed image of the events, the characters and moods.”
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Characters[edit]
- Joe Trace, a door-to-door cosmetics salesman and the murderer of his young lover.
- Violet Trace, an unlicensed beautician. Violet is married to Joe. She is nicknamed 'Violent' because she assaulted the corpse of Joe’s lover with a knife at the funeral.
- Dorcas, Joe's young lover, who is shot down at a party. Dorcas is inspired by a picture from The Harlem Book of the Dead (a collection of funeral photographs by James Van Der Zee).
- Alice Manfred, Dorcas' aunt and guardian. A conservative Christian ashamed by her niece's behavior. Alice enters into an unusual friendship with Violet.
- Felice, a friend of Dorcas' who goes to the Trace household in search of answers.
- Golden Gray, a mixed race man from the 19th century. Golden appears in both Joe's and Violet's histories.
References[edit]
- ^http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb1455/is_2_11/ai_n29001508/[permanent dead link]
- ^https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1993/press-release
Jazz Toni Morrison Summary
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‘Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours...“Beloved,” is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all’ Margaret Atwood, New York Times
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‘The literary titan we must never stop learning from’ Metro
Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction