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Sook-he Kim(김숙희) 한국영미어문학회 2007 영미어문학 Vol.- No.83
Jazz written by Toni Morrison and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison are examples of Afro-American literature which address pain and anger by means of a narrative construction based on jazz music. Both novels depict Afro-Americans who have been hindered by a legacy of cultural separation, personal dispossession, and emotional disturbance since slavery. Surprisingly, both works employ the images of jazz, a musical form which carries a transcendental meaning beyond literal expression as both authors investigate the lives of Afro-Americans in order to clarify their undocumented history. Although it is difficult to establish a relationship between music and prose fiction, Morrison as well as Ellison successfully demonstrate the unique function of black music not only as an explication of black aesthetics and aspirations of Afro-Americans, but also as a reflection of the genuine social, economic, and political realities of Afro-American history.<BR> This paper will demonstrate that the presence of narratives shown in Jazz and Invisible Man are in a pattern similar to jazz music. That is, the linear progressive chronological development of past incidents are not the case in analyzing both of their literary works. Further, any specific structures or patterns in discussing the present without considering the past become insignificant since the pattern of the incidents shown in Jazz as well as Invisible Man progresses in a circular motion without any specific sequences. Again, through the musical mode of the narrative, the personal despair and the historical truth that they rigorously search for are clearly exposed as Morrison and Ellison precisely explore the collective memory of Afro-Americans throughout their works.
The Genuine Reflection of Afro-American History
Sook-He Kim(김숙희) 신영어영문학회 2007 신영어영문학 Vol.36 No.-
Throughout Jazz, Morrison provides us with a reliable source of Afro-American history accommodating the theme of physical despair and emotional sorrow that arose from the economic poverty, social injustice, and political inequality embedded in American society since emancipation. By extending the range of her fictional world, Morrison was able to present the graphic impression of their lives in a hypocritical white society through the eyes of Afro-American migrants in the North. She specifically investigates the lives of Afro-Americans in order to clarify their blurred and unaccounted for past experiences. As she discursively reinvestigates, reinterprets, and rediscovers their painful past experiences since emancipation, Morrison successfully depicts a realistic portrayal of Afro- American life. That is, she passionately illustrates the social issues such as segregation, exploitation, eviction, and deceptions, all of which were imposed upon Afro-Americans. Thus, an inheritance of cultural disruption in the South and emotional disturbances in the North, which are intermingled in the lives of Afro-Americans, are explicitly exposed throughout the novel.