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Abstract
As a winner of Nobel Prize of Literature in 1 993,Toni Morrison has written 9 novels 冬 by ,the second novel of Morrison’S History Triology,was published in 1 992. This dissertation aims at applying the classical narratological theory of Wayne
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^ to analyze how and why Morrison revises conventional narrative types,how the narrative
truth is attained in Jazz and the importance of reader’S active participation in reading Morrison’S the SalTle time,this study tries to find out the explanation in response to the plaint about the‘‘problem’’of Morrison’S novels:‘‘lack of resolution”.
The dissertation first analyze the uncertain identity of the narrator and its first—person omniscient the process of narrating,the narrator gradually reveals its unreliablity in the narration of the black characters’ the salTle time,the black
characters in the novel assumes the role of narrator-agents and take turns to narrate their
own the narrative truth is attained by the collective narrating of both the narrator and the much of the canon of 1iterature,African Americans are seen as objects,not as individuals with applying such a unique narrative
strategy,Morrison intends to endow the black characters with their own ’S
more,Morrison emphasizes the significance of the collective power in the healthy development of the African munity in the American society.
In Jazz,Morrison deliberately created confusion for the readers by applying the fragmentary narrative structure and making suspense in the narration of an deliberate confusion presents Morrison’S intention to demand the readers’active
participation in constructing the aesthetics and metaphors,which function as
-the author’S mentary in Jazz,also contribute a lot to the theme of the novel. At last,the dissertation draws a conclusion that Morrison’S problem of“lack of
◆ resolution”is intenti