... This chapter looks at Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Toni Morrison’s Jazz , two novels that riff on the African American migration narrative, the movement of black bodies from the South to the North in the early part of the twentieth century. While this upward narrative promised...

... .To provide a different conception of race and nation, one that takes seriously the violence involved in our attachments to solid (individual and collective) identities, this chapter provides a creative reading of Toni Morrison’s Paradise . Richard Rorty American exceptionalism collective violence...