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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Predicate Object
instanceOf literaryWork
novel
author Toni Morrison NERFINISHED
awarded Anisfield-Wolf Book Award NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
explores Harlem Renaissance culture
complex marital relationships
interplay of past and present
unreliable narration
followedBy Paradise (novel) NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
Joe Trace NERFINISHED
Violet Trace NERFINISHED
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) NERFINISHED
publicationDate 1992
publisher Alfred A. Knopf
setInPlace Harlem NERFINISHED
New York City NERFINISHED
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 (novel)
this entity surface form: Jazz (1992 novel)