The story begins with the fracturing of human psyches, souls, and bodies in slavery. In Jazz, Toni Morrison retells the story of Beloved, which Morrison regards as the essential story of the black experience in America. Main claim: In Jazz, Morrison creates a narrative strategy that combines the movement of music and the structure of tragedy more specifically, she uses the improvisational quality of music to deconstruct the form of tragedy, allowing a reconstruction of identity to emerge that is not determined, but fluid and improvisational. Keywords: Jazz, Music, Poststructuralism, Narrative theory Source: African American Review, Autumn, 1997, Vol. Traces and Cracks: Identity and Narrative in Toni Morrison's Jazz Jessica Benjamin, The Bonds ofLove: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination (New York: Pantheon, 1988). Winnicott, 'Ego Distortion in Terms of the True and False Self in The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment (New York: International Universities Press, 1965).

Morrison's novel demonstrates through her characters that for African Americans living in a racist, post-slavery society which denies them their status as human subject, the bonds of love are often forged into the bondage of domination and displacement of the self.'ĭ.W. The longing and desire to be known completely as oneself by an other who shares this same feeling and intention, the novel declares, is the secret of love. It defines that problem as a struggle for both self-identity and mutuality (mutual recognition).

Main Claim: Toni Morrison's novel Jazz wrestles with the problem of romantic love and desire.

Sacred Heart University Review 14:1, 1994 Self and Mutuality: Romantic Love, Desire, Race, and Gender in Toni Morrison's Jazz Toni Morrison : A Teaching and Learning Resource Collection Main Menu Overviews of Toni Morrison's Fiction Overviews of Toni Morrison's Eleven published novels Overviews of Toni Morrison's Nonfiction and Drama Reception Histories Reception Histories: Toni Morrison's fiction Toni Morrison: Critical Overviews Toni Morrison: Biographical Note Biographical Overview of Toni Morrison's Life and Career Who Gets to be the 'Great American Writer'? Toni Morrison and Oprah's Book Club Maps and Data A Path Pointing to Maps and Data Related to Toni Morrison's Writings Amardeep Singh c185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1 'Jazz': Critical Overview 1 T13:29:55-04:00 Amardeep Singh c185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1 203 1 plain T13:29:55-04:00 Amardeep Singh c185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1 Please enable Javascript and reload the page. This site requires Javascript to be turned on.

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