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1 Toni Morrison Reclaiming the dead girl in Toni Morrison’s Jazz

2 Basic Information African American writer Born Chloe Anthony Wofford, 1931 Did not start writing for real until divorced Needed to claim the “dead girl” inside Has 9 novels published 1993 Nobel prize in literature for Beloved Issues: Political, historical, racial, postcolonial, women – how women displace themselves

3 “And so it looked as though the world was going by and I was not in that world. I used to live in this world, I mean really live in it. I knew it. I used to belong here. And at some point I didn’t belong here anymore. I was somebody’s parent, somebody’s this, somebody’s that, but there was no me in the world. And I was looking for that dead girl and I thought I might talk about that dead girl, if for no other reason than to have it, somewhere in the world, in a drawer […] I was everybody [her characters]. And as I began to do it […] I fell in love with myself. I reclaimed myself and the world” (Morrison 1985).

4 The Trilogy Wrote a trilogy, Beloved, Jazz and Paradise Theme: Love Morrison was inspired by stories, articles and pictures Main focus now: Jazz Period: 1873 – 1926 – where Beloved leaves off Love theme: Romantic love

5 Jazz Nature versus the City (New York, Harlem) Narrator Violet and Joe Trace, Dorcas Violet’s “cracks” -Violet and that Violet Golden Grey - black and white Generations of motherless mothers & daughters

6 Jazz Destruction and healing -triangle Slavery – aftermath A connection between Beloved and Wild? My take on Jazz: Postcolonial with focus on identity or loss of identity, the female experience Reclaiming history/past

7 Jazz Encourages the reader to participate –to read and re-read the story – to reclaim the past of every African American Healing power of old and familiar love Violet reclaiming the dead girl inside

8 Thank you! Any questions?


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