Evocation of cultural roots in Toni Morrison’s Jazz
| dc.contributor.advisor | Ghanashyam Bhandari | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bhatta, Gokul Raj | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-11-11T08:52:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-11-11T08:52:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In Jazz, Morrison evokes distinct African-American cultural roots and at the same time calls for a revisioning of the cultural history of the Jazz Age.She exploresspecifically the ways in which she thematically sings the bluesof black experience through the use of literary techniquesand images that inventively borrow from blues patterns and the structure of jazz performance.Though these images occur in relationship to masculinity or are related by male characters for their freedom from racial discrimination, they become contested symbols for women’s liberation as well. In this way, she attempts to demonstrate the ways in which she engages in a kind of cultural mourning that ultimately serves both as an expression of grief for lost lives and as a form of re-appropriation of lost African cultural creations. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/23118 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.subject | Cultural root | |
| dc.subject | Literary technique | |
| dc.title | Evocation of cultural roots in Toni Morrison’s Jazz | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| local.academic.level | Masters | |
| local.institute.title | University Campus, Kirtipur |