Historical Facts and Artistic Fiction in Toni Morrison’s Jazz (1992)
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Date
2020
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Mouloud Mammeri University OF Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
The present dissertation has studied the Historical Facts and Artistic Fiction in Toni
Morrison’s Jazz (1992). Our major interest in this dissertation is to demonstrate the way the
author resorts to historical facts in order to construct her fiction and how her literary
imagination operates in recording the African American history and social issues. To achieve
our purpose we have relied on Stephen Greenblatt’s New Historicism, which studies any given
literary work in relation to the historical context in which it is produced; it also put emphasis
on the cultural and social aspects of any historical text presented in a fictional way. We have
divided our work into two chapters. The first has developed the main historical facts that Toni
Morrison has used in order to make the world understand the history of the Afro-Americans
easily. The second one has discussed the artistic fiction in Toni Morrison’s Jazz, where we have
examined her style of writing, the major narrative techniques she has relied on, and the
important themes she tackled. We have provided a deep analysis of the main characters to shed
light on the real experience and status of the African American people in the United States of
America. Indeed, we have attempted to show how Toni Morrison built her fiction by using her
own imagination and the way she has resorted to important historical events in the history of
the African American people and real facts to reflect their troubling experience in the United
States of America. At the end of this dissertation, we have come to conclude that Toni Morrison
has resorted to real facts not only to trace or date the history of the Black Americans but she
has used this kind of writhing to empower the Black American people and demonstrate the
worth of the Afro-American literary artistry.
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51p. ; 30cm.(+CD-Rom)
Keywords
Arts, Fiction, History, Real Facts, Black Americans, Toni Morrison’s Jazz
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Literature and Civilization