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 tells the story of those striving to get to the place of their dreams. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim, he may not realize how closely he is describing the city illustrated in Jazz, a novel by Toni Morrison. 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. When Christopher Morley explains in Where the Blue Begins that All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. Morrison's voice transcends colour and creed and she has become one of America's outstanding post-war writers' Guardian Instead of giving the reader one omniscient narrator, Toni Morrison chooses to use two narrators. The novel juxtaposes the rural and city life as perceived by the blacks. Jazz is told by contradictory, multiple narrative voices. ' Jazz blazes with an intensity more usually found in tragic poetry of the past. Toni Morrisons Jazz is a historical novel which got published in the year 1992.
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