... and the temporality of jazz or, more specifically, between prolepsis and parabasis. My essay looks at Paul de Man's and Georg Lukács's assertions that the novel is an essentially proleptic form and argues that the specific form of prolepsis it brings with it from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is out...

.... Productive Postmodernism: Consuming Histories and Cultural Studies . Albany: SUNY P, 2002 . Gates , Henry Louis Jr. “Review of Morrison’s Jazz.” Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present . Ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and K. Anthony Appiah. New York: Amistad, 1993 : 53 –55. Gioia...

...: Oxford UP, 1993 . 297 –324. Reed , Ishmael . Flight to Canada . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976 . Reed , Ishmael . Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down . New York: Doubleday, 1969 . Werner , Craig Hansen . Playing the Changes: From Afro-Modernism to the Jazz Impulse . Urbana...

... in the best reading of it I know, and she elaborates fur- ther on how Morrison made use of its material by incorporating historical fragments into her trilogy, Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise, to reverse the amnesia of black as well as white culture in the US. Even more important, in her close readings, she...

...: Vintage, 1990 . 180 –315. ———. “The Old People.” Go Down Moses . New York: Vintage, 1990 . 155 –180. Fitzgerald , F. Scott . “Appendix.” Jazz Age Stories . New York: Penguin, 1998 . 413 –17. ———. “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.” Jazz Age Stories . New York: Penguin, 1998...

...: Woolf, History, and the Novel 196 rita barnard Fictions of the Global 207 bruce barnhart Prolepsis and Parabasis: Jazz and the Novel 216 nancy bentley Du Bois, Kinlessness, and the Catachrestic...

...: Verso, 1987 . Morrison , Toni . Jazz . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992 . Poe , Edgar Allan . The Complete Tales and Poems . Ed. Hervey Allen. New York: Modern Library, 1938 . Rushdie , Salman . Shame . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983 . Toer , Pramoedya Ananta...

... of Solomon, Beloved, Jazz and other lyrically narrated novels of black American life, has won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. — New York Times , October 8, 1993 Praising her as “a literary artist of the first rank,” the Swedish Academy awarded Toni Morrison the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature...

... spectacle of colo- nized display (on view in her theater shows)" Baker's spontaneous synthesis of irnpm- vised jazz and acrobatic dancing constituted "a performance of modern culture in black terms" (36). Not surprisingly, in a collection that often centers on texts that the editors dub "low...

...-Timing and Double-Consciousness in Toni Morrison's Jazz.” Callaloo 18 . 2 ( 1995 ): 451 – 71 . Herman Matthew J. Politics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Native American Literature: Across Every Border . New York : Routledge , 2009 . Holland Sharon P. “The Revolution...

... most recent books, produced by a mow secure, "authorized" Toni Morrison. Here, Harriet Beecher Stowe figures as the intertext for Beloved, while Jazz and Paradise revise themes and figures from Morrison's REVIEW I POSTMODERN MORRISON own early fiction...

... dress quivers” (Reed, Mumbo [1988] 3; all quotations are from this edition). The verbs sits , is , and quivers immediately establish the narrative's present-tense orientation, even as other elements of the passage—the Valentino reference, the scatlike nonsense syllables—signal the story's Jazz Age...

... by such institutions of modernity as cross-border labor, commerce, and culture. Banjo' s description of jazz yields a rich account of the “desire of the vagabond subject,” a desire “without limit and without achievement” in contrast to the bourgeois “rational-critical subject motivated by the pursuit of an object...

... century’s] fixation on the sensuality and expressive physicality of music” (158). This chapter, which proceeds from Ellison’s strained relations with his upstairs neighbor to the racially charged history of the gramophone and then on to an analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Jazz Age” fiction...

..., "Figures in Blood: Closed Communities and Free Markets," Dussere explores the relationship among race, identity, community, and the marketplace in Light in August, Jazz, and Paradise. In these novels, the central characters, male and female, have mixed blood. Their existence in the narratives both...

... with a Conservative equivalent to the Soviet propaganda trains: mobile cinemas made from converted pantechnicons screening Conservative party films on street corners. (A David Low cartoon in the period after the release of The Jazz Singer shows Davidson behind a movie camera telling a blacked-up Baldwin...

... of the therapeutic versus prohibitive binary, and for her, trauma theory offers one pathway (24). Through close readings of Morrison's Beloved and Jazz and Kenan's Visitation of Spirits , she argues that the “traumatic time”—that is, the nonlinear and multidirectional time in these novels—means that we cannot...

...: words flash upon a screen, set to a jazz soundtrack, with simple, consistent typography and few colors. Pressman reads this flashing as an adaptation of Pound's “super-position” technique, the Vorticist equivalent of cinematic montage. Dakota , then, “not only adapt[s] a modernist text but also...

... three academic periods, it feels weird to call it narrow. I guess totality has its limits. A few references to jazz and ragtime only make me wonder about the other musical and stage traditions he might have traced and about all the interesting ways that figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois and James Weldon...

...), whose title references Frank Loesser's jazz standard "On a Slow Boat to China." In this short story published in 1980, Murakami men- tions three Chinese people that the Japanese protagonist meets at different stages of his life. Usually understood as a nostalgic story pervaded by Western refer...