Historical Facts And Artistic Fiction In Toni Morrison’s Jazz (1992)

Résumé: The present dissertation has studied the Historical Facts and Artistic Fiction in Toni Morrison’s Jazz (1992). Our major interest in this dissertation is to demonstrate the way the author resorts to historical facts in order to construct her fiction and how her literary imagination operates in recording the African American history and social issues. To achieve our purpose we have relied on Stephen Greenblatt’s New Historicism, which studies any given literary work in relation to the historical context in which it is produced; it also put emphasis on the cultural and social aspects of any historical text presented in a fictional way. We have divided our work into two chapters. The first has developed the main historical facts that Toni Morrison has used in order to make the world understand the history of the Afro-Americans easily. The second one has discussed the artistic fiction in Toni Morrison’s Jazz, where we have examined her style of writing, the major narrative techniques she has relied on, and the important themes she tackled. We have provided a deep analysis of the main characters to shed light on the real experience and status of the African American people in the United States of America. Indeed, we have attempted to show how Toni Morrison built her fiction by using her own imagination and the way she has resorted to important historical events in the history of the African American people and real facts to reflect their troubling experience in the United States of America. At the end of this dissertation, we have come to conclude that Toni Morrison has resorted to real facts not only to trace or date the history of the Black Americans but she has used this kind of writhing to empower the Black American people and demonstrate the worth of the Afro-American literary artistry.

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