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    Literature Help: Jazz
    Literature Help: Jazz
    Literature Help: Jazz
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    Literature Help: Jazz

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    “Jazz” by Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize winning American writer, was first published in the year 1992. It is a highly successful and widely acclaimed historical novel.

    The major part of the story is set in Harlem, New York City, during the 1920s. The narrative very interestingly and skillfully explores the pasts of various characters. The narrative, as the story progresses, extends back to the past to the mid nineteenth century American South.

    “Jazz” is a part of the Dentesque trilogy written by Toni Morrison. The three books are based on African-American history. “Jazz” was the second of the three books. The other two books were “Beloved” and “Paradise.” “Beloved” was the first of the three.

    Literature Help: Jazz
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    Chapter One: Introduction
    Chapter Two: Plot Overview
    Chapter Three: Character
    Chapter Four: Complete Summary
    Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateOct 28, 2014
    ISBN9781311292810
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      Literature Help: Jazz

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      Chapter One: Introduction

      Jazz by Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize winning American writer, was first published in the year 1992. It is a highly successful and widely acclaimed historical novel.

      The major part of the story is set in Harlem, New York City, during the 1920s. The narrative very interestingly and skillfully explores the pasts of various characters.

      The narrative, as the story progresses, extends back to the past to the mid nineteenth century American South.

      Jazz is a part of the Dentesque trilogy written by Toni Morrison. The three books are based on African-American history. Jazz was the second of the three books. The other two books were Beloved and Paradise. Beloved was the first of the three.

      Since Jazz basically explores the society and its people, it can well fall in the cannon of a literary movement called Postmodernism.

      There is a very unique kind of lyricism in Jazz and it is highly appreciated by both reviewers and literary critics.

      As the novel proceeds, we come across several points where the prose becomes a song or a poem, and then it eventually goes back to its original form.

      Jazz has been included in the course of study at several schools and colleges in the English speaking countries. It is now considered as one of the most significant work in African-American literature.

      Chapter Two: Plot Overview

      Major part of the novel is set in the black Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem. The year is 1926.

      As the story begins, we come to know about a love triangle between Violet, Joe, and Dorcas.

      It transpires that Violet and Joe are unhappily married; however, they live together in an apartment in Harlem. It is a black neighborhood.

      Joe falls in love with a young girl named Dorcas. She is only seventeen years old. Dorcas lives with her aunt. Joe visits her aunt to sell ladies cosmetics. He meets Dorcas there. They fall in love and an affair begins which lasts from October 1925 to January 1st 1926.

      Malvonne is a neighbor who has her apartment upstairs. Joe has a talk with her about the use of her apartment to meet Dorcas in privacy. Malvonne allows these

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