词条 | Jazz (novel) |
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| name = Jazz | title_orig = | translator = | image = Jazz (novel).jpg| caption = First edition cover | author = Toni Morrison | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Historical novel | publisher = Alfred A. Knopf | release_date = 1992 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) | pages = 229 | isbn = 0-679-41167-4 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} Jazz is a 1992 historical novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison. The majority of the narrative takes place in Harlem during the 1920s; however, as the pasts of the various characters are explored, the narrative extends back to the mid-19th-century American South. The novel forms the second part of Morrison's Dantesque trilogy on African-American history, beginning with Beloved (1987) and ending with Paradise (1997). Narrative style and themesThe novel deliberately mirrors the music of its title, with various characters "improvising" solo compositions that fit together to create a whole work. The tone of the novel also shifts with these compositions, from bluesy laments to up beat, sensual ragtime. The novel also utilizes the call-and-response style of jazz music, allowing the characters to explore the same events from different perspectives. This book also features "untrustworthy narrators" whose emotions and perspective colour the story. Narration switches every so often to the viewpoint of various characters, inanimate objects, and even concepts. The book's final narrator is widely believed to be Morrison or perhaps the book itself.[1] Characters
References1. ^http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb1455/is_2_11/ai_n29001508/{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} {{Toni Morrison}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Jazz (Novel)}}{{1990s-hist-novel-stub}} 9 : 1992 American novels|Alfred A. Knopf books|Fiction with unreliable narrators|Harlem in fiction|Historical novels|Novels by Toni Morrison|Novels set in New York City|Novels set in the 1920s|African-American novels |
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