![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Joe talks with Malvonne, an upstairs neighbour, and discusses the use of her empty apartment so that he and Dorcas can meet there. Joe and Dorcas meet when Joe comes to Dorcas’s aunt’s house to sell ladies cosmetics. Violet and Joe are unhappily married and living together in an apartment in Harlem when Joe falls in love with a seventeen-year old girl named Dorcas. As the novel goes we discover the love triangle between Violet, Joe and Dorcas. The novel blooms in the black Manhattan neighbourhood of Harlem, the year is 1926 and on an ice-cold winter morning, a woman named Violet Trace has thrown open her windows and emptied her birdcages of their flocks, including her favourite, lonely bird that always said “I love you.” Violet is a fifty-year-old black woman, she is skinny and emotionally unstable. The novel was first published in 1992, a year before Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Because what Morrison does in Jazz is to give a sense of both the scandal of jazz music and its historical context. It is experimental in that it challenges the conventions of the American canonical literary narrative. Jazz is heavily focused on the history of blacks in the United States. Hey are you thinking of Jazz music? If such you are about to get something more extra melody and mellow than that in Toni Morrison’s Jazz. ![]()
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