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- Title
Multifaceted Love as Reflected in Toni Morrison's Love and Jazz.
- Authors
Selvalakshmi, B.
- Abstract
Toni Morrison is one of the most sophisticated novelists in the history of African American Literature. She is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, editor and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogues and richly detailed African American characters. She gives a clear description about the multifaceted love in her novels Love and Jazz. The novel Love is about the central character Mr. Cosey, who shows his love as a Husband, Friend, Father, Lover, Guardian and Stranger to his respective characters -- Heed, his second wife; Sandler Gibbons, his friend; Billy Boy, his son; Celestial, his lover; May, his daughter-in-law; Christine, his granddaughter and Junior, his stranger. Most of them are women, who are obsessed with him, love him, fight over him, make him miserable and finally drive him to his grave. Cosey married his granddaughter Christine's friend Heed, and so Christine thought that she was betrayed by Heed. Both are good friends until Heed's marriage. But at the end of the novel, both the friends are betrayed by Cosey for giving all his belongings to Celestial- his lover, before his death. The novel Jazz is about the marital relationship between Joe and Violet, who lead a happy life in the beginning. Later Violet pays less attention to her husband, Joe. This makes Joe to find a girl named, Dorcas. Joe's love for Dorcas become horrific, when Dorcas gets bored of an aged old man, Joe. Instead Dorcas prefers a young and a good looking man named Acton. Joe follows Dorcas wherever she goes with Acton. At one point of time, Joe cannot tolerate his obsession towards Dorcas and so he shoots her. Later, Violet realizes her mistakes and gets united with her husband, Joe with the help of Dorcas' aunt Alice. Therefore, in both the novels, Love and Jazz, the multifaceted love leads the life of the protagonists, Mr. Cosey and Joe to disaster.
- Subjects
MORRISON, Toni, 1931-2019; AFRICAN American literature; PROTAGONISTS (Persons); MARRIAGE; MARITAL relations
- Publication
Language in India, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 10, p255
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article