Toni Morrison trilogy on American history

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The Toni Morrison trilogy on American history is a sequence of interconnected novels—typically identified as Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise—that explores the legacy of slavery, racial trauma, and African American community life across different historical periods in the United States.

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Beloved	0
Jazz	0
Paradise	0
Toni Morrison trilogy beginning with Beloved and Jazz	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cycle of novels ⓘ literary trilogy ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ
author	Toni Morrison NERFINISHED ⓘ Toni Morrison NERFINISHED ⓘ Toni Morrison NERFINISHED ⓘ Toni Morrison NERFINISHED ⓘ
awarded	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
focusesOn	African American history ⓘ Black communities in the American West ⓘ Great Migration and urban life ⓘ Reconstruction and its aftermath ⓘ post–Civil War era ⓘ
genre	African American literature ⓘ historical fiction ⓘ historical fiction ⓘ historical fiction ⓘ historical fiction ⓘ magic realism ⓘ modernist fiction ⓘ
hasPart	Beloved NERFINISHED ⓘ Jazz NERFINISHED ⓘ Paradise NERFINISHED ⓘ
language	English ⓘ English ⓘ English ⓘ English ⓘ
mainTheme	African American community life ⓘ legacy of slavery in the United States ⓘ love and violence ⓘ memory and haunting ⓘ motherhood ⓘ racial trauma ⓘ religion and patriarchy ⓘ slavery in the United States ⓘ trauma and memory ⓘ urban African American life ⓘ utopian and separatist Black communities ⓘ violence and healing ⓘ
narrativeForm	interconnected novels ⓘ
publicationYear	1987 ⓘ 1992 ⓘ 1997 ⓘ
setDuring	Harlem Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ mid-20th century United States ⓘ post–American Civil War period ⓘ
setIn	Cincinnati, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ Harlem, New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ fictional town of Ruby, Oklahoma ⓘ
settingPeriod	19th century United States ⓘ 20th century United States ⓘ

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Jazz → partOf → Toni Morrison trilogy on American history ⓘ

subject surface form: Jazz (novel)

Paradise → partOf → Toni Morrison trilogy on American history ⓘ

this entity surface form: Toni Morrison trilogy beginning with Beloved and Jazz