Subjugation of Individual As Subjects In Toni Morrison's Jazz

Abstract

Toni Morrison's novel Jazz advocates the voice of Afro-American voiceless in a capitalist ideological mechanism that subordinates the role of black American. Capitalist institutions like press, politics, and racism interiorize the agency of black American in the novel. Particularly Afro-Americans characters are placed in dominant position to resist capitalist ideological mindset. Amidst the adverse environment, Violet, the protagonist and most of the time speaker in the novel stand against the conformist bourgeois society by revolting in their own norms and values. Despite the inseparable hardships, she tries to maintain herself personally and socially but remains as it is. How capitalist American society has been trapping to those voiceless black American this is the issue unfolded in this research. Such a pathetic condition of her and suffering of others like her, it is all about the reason of capitalist ideology. The novelist appeals to advocate protest against the subjugation of voiceless people caused by capitalist ideology through her voiceless African American characters and bold representation of them in the novel Jazz.