Misreading Morrison, mishearing jazz: A response to Toni Morrison's jazz critics

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Toni Morrison's fiction is said to embody features taken from jazz, and critics propose that jazz riffs are found in her writing, and that her prose is improvised in a similar manner to improvisation by a jazz musician. However a link between music and prose fiction is difficult to establish, and although Toni Morrison alludes to jazz and blues in her fiction, she does not believe her fiction is imbued with jazz rhythms.

Music, Literature, Music and literature

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Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, and the African 'primal outlook upon life.'(Critical Essay)

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The concept of a primal African outlook in the works of Richard Wright and Toni Morrison's novel 'Beloved' is examined. The author examines how the African perception of time is explored in 'Beloved' and how family and tradition are important in the works of Richard Wright.

Time perception, Behavior, Critical Essay, Africans, American literature, African American literature, Wright, Richard (American writer), Beloved (Novel)

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Bibliography of the visual arts and architecture, part XIV

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A bibliography of books and articles on the work of Southern architects and artists who worked in the Southern States before 1961 or were born there before 1941 is presented.

East South Central States, West South Central States, Architecture, Art, Southern States, Bibliography, East South Central United States, West South Central United States

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