CRITICAL REVIEWS OF TONI MOTTISON'S JAZZ AND HOME

Abstract

This paper is a critical review onToni Morrison’s Jazz and Home. The review is going to infer
the central concepts, themes, motifs and literaryelementsthatdistinguish these novels from other
literary works. Furthermore, the review will follows a close reading of how previousscholars
attempted to deduce Morrison’s depiction of American people, especially the blacks who are
subjects to moral discrimination in the American society. Therefore, the methodological style for
the current reviews is going to shed light on the textual and contextual aspects the render the
selected works private fictional nuances, whichmightoffer the reader literarymeanings
concerning reality outside the plots. By tracing the previous studies, this review tries to add up
new interpretation of the selected novels and how they correspond to the reality of the American
society that have undergone tremendous changes in the second half of the twentieth century and
the first decades of the twenty-first century. Being so, the reviews will provide genuine
discussion of the selected novels in or to demonstrate how they will be elaborated in my study.