![]() ![]() ![]() In Jazz, this search for identity is examined through the stories of Violet and Joe Trace, a couple that moves to Harlem to improve their standard of living. ![]() "It's like humor: You have to take the authority back you realign where the power is." (Morrison 1994, 245) Jazz is the subject of numerous scholarly articles which explore a wide variety of topics, including how Morrison uses jazz music and its rhythms to shape her text,1 what the sex of her unnamed narrator might be,2 and how the novel depicts the daily realities of city living for those African Americans who migrated northward to Harlem during the 1920s.3 Published in 1992, Jazz is the second novel of a recently completed trilogy4 that describes the history of African Americans from slavery onward, a legacy of dispossession which has had a dramatic effect on subsequent generations. ![]()
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