Mapping the Postmodern in Toni Morrison's Jazz - Issam El Masmodi

Essay from the year 2020 in the subject African Studies - Literature, grade: 14/20, Sultan Moulay Sliman University, language: English, abstract: This paper comes as an answer to the question of what does jazz mean in Toni Morrison¿s novel \Jazz\. It is an attempt to dismantle those literary techniques used by Morrison, which derives from the music of jazz. It also tries to trace some postmodern literary elements such as metafiction, the unreliability of the narrator, intertexuality, and the rewriting..