Jazz (novel)

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"Jazz" is a 1992 novel by Toni Morrison that explores love, violence, and memory in 1920s Harlem through a polyphonic, jazz-like narrative style.

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Jazz (novel) canonical 3
Jazz (1992 novel) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literaryWork
novel
author Toni Morrison
awarded Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
countryOfOrigin United States
explores Harlem Renaissance culture
complex marital relationships
interplay of past and present
unreliable narration
followedBy Paradise (novel)
genre African-American literature
historical fiction
modernist literature
hasForm prose
hasISBN 978-0-679-73564-8
hasNarrator unnamed first-person narrator
hasPageCount 229
hasStructure circular
improvisational
inspiredBy jazz music
language English
literaryMovement postmodernism
mainCharacter Dorcas
Joe Trace
Violet Trace
mediaType print
narrativeStyle jazz-like structure
nonlinear
polyphonic
notableFor experimental narrative voice
integration of musical form into prose
partOf Toni Morrison’s loose trilogy with Beloved and Paradise
precededBy Beloved (novel)
linked to: Beloved
publicationDate 1992
publisher Alfred A. Knopf
setInPlace Harlem
New York City
setInTimePeriod 1920s
targetAudience adult readers
theme African-American urban experience
healing
jealousy
love
memory
migration
trauma
violence

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Dorcas isCharacterIn Jazz (novel)
Dorcas firstPublicationContext Jazz (1992 novel)
linked to: Jazz (novel)
Love (novel) universe relatedWork Jazz (novel)
Paradise (1997 novel) follows Jazz (novel)