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    A Study Guide for Toni Morrison's "Jazz"
    A Study Guide for Toni Morrison's "Jazz"
    A Study Guide for Toni Morrison's "Jazz"
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    A Study Guide for Toni Morrison's "Jazz"

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    A Study Guide for Toni Morrison's "Jazz," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535826457
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      A Study Guide for Toni Morrison's "Jazz" - Gale

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      Jazz

      Toni Morrison

      1992

      Introduction

      Jazz is the sixth novel by Toni Morrison, a Nobel Prize–winning author who has long been celebrated as one of America's finest contemporary writers. Jazz, published in 1992, tells a story that ranges over several generations in the lives of African Americans. The story follows characters from the rural South in the late nineteenth century to Harlem, New York City, in the 1920s, when the Great Migration of African Americans, who traveled from the South to the North and other areas of the United States, was well under way. The novel gives a detailed picture of a vibrant African American community in Harlem, where African Americans had new opportunities to prosper but still faced the specter of racism. There are three central characters in the novel: Joe and Violet Trace, who have been married many years, and Dorcas, a young woman with whom Joe has a brief but passionate relationship. When Dorcas rejects Joe, he takes revenge. Tracing out the consequences of that act, Morrison tells the story through multiple narrators, jumping back and forth in time, in a narrative that is as complex, lyrical, and surprising as the African American musical form that gives the novel its title.

      Author Biography

      Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio. She was the second of four children born to George Wofford, who was a shipyard welder, and Ramah Willis Wofford. As a child, she loved reading and developed an interest in literature. She attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she became known as Toni. She graduated in 1953 with a degree in English and then earned a master of arts degree in English from Cornell University in 1955. She then taught for nearly a decade at Howard University. She married Harold Morrison, an architect, in 1958, and they had two children, Harold Ford and Slade Kevin. The marriage ended in divorce in 1964.

      Morrison changed careers in 1965, taking a position as associate editor at a publishing house. In 1967, she became a senior editor at Random House, specializing in African American fiction. Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970, followed in 1974 by Sula, which was nominated for the National Book Award. These two books established Morrison as an important American writer whose work chronicled African American life. Song of Solomon (1977) was awarded the Fiction Award of the National Book Critics' Circle. Tar Baby, her fourth

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