A CHORUS OF PAIN AND HOPE: HOW JAZZ TELLS THE STORY OF CULTURAL TRAUMA
This article explores the narrative strategy in Toni Morrison’s Jazz (1992), focusing on its innovative use of literary jazz as a technique to articulate African American cultural memory and identity. Through a detailed analysis of Morrison’s narrative style - characterized by polyphony, improvisation, fragmentation, and the call-and-response structure - this study reveals how Jazz transforms the African American oral and musical tradition into a powerful literary form.
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