“ I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge – even wisdom. Like art. ” -          Toni Morrison Feminism has political and cultu…

The novel borrows its title from Jazz music and the idea of music is discussed throughout the novel. As the name of the novel implies music operates both thematically and formally to provide structure to the book. The Jazz music of the 1920s situates the narrative in a specific cultural and historical moment, …

In Jazz Violet Traces is the central character through which Morrison describes the woes of the black women. Violet is a fifty six year old woman living in Harlem with her husband Joe. Hopelessly scrawny with very dark skin, Violet is beautiful if one looks at her long enough. She has a reputation in Harlem fo…

Jazz is a historical novel by Pultizer and Nobel Prize winning American author, Toni Morrison. The novel forms the second part of Morrison’s Dantesque trilogy on Africa American history, beginning with Beloved and ending with paradise. Morrison is a modern novelist and in this novel she has presented a hoard o…

Lord of the Flies as a Dystopian Novel According to M.H. Abrams, the term dystopia “has recently come to be applied to works of fiction, including science fiction, that represent a very unpleasant imaginary world in which ominous tendencies of our present social, political, and technological order are projected…

Women are inherently artistic.  Women and literature  are closely related to each other because it requires a lot of artistic creativity to be good at literature and women are too good when it comes to artistic creativity.  The Indian women have significantly contributed to the overall world literature as equal w…