Mosaic (Winnipeg), June 1st, 1998
African American writer Toni Morrison's novel 'Jazz' is a depiction of "cultural mourning," the reaction of African Americans to their lost lives due to the sufferings inflicted upon them as a people transplanted to the US as slaves and as an attempt to re-appropriate lost cultural creations. The theme of loss is central in the novel, as the characters are either orphans or abandoned by their parents when they were children. Despite its title, the element of blues music in included in the novel since the blues originated as lamentations of blacks because of the misery inflicted upon them by sl...
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