![]() ![]() In Jazz, Morrison stretches her characters from the 1850s through the 1920s, chronicling the extended cultural responses to slavery's end. In Beloved, this idea is called "rememory" by the novel's ex-slave characters who feel that the pain of remembering is intense enough to be akin to reliving the remembered horror. Epidemic racist acts effectively erased many aspects of African and African-American culture and Morrison's primary concern in her trilogy (which concludes with the novel Paradise) is the reconstruction of memory. The central theme of both novels, is a concern for memory: personal and cultural. Jazz was widely regarded as a success in its attempts to continue the story that began with Beloved. Morrison explains that she sought to write a trilogy, beginning with her fifth novel, Beloved, which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Like all of Morrison's novels, Jazz is heavily focused on the history of blacks in the United States. Chronologically, Jazz is Morrison's sixth novel of seven, followed by Paradise and preceded by The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby and Beloved. ![]() Jazz was first published in 1992, a year before Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. ![]()
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