As a jazz musician, my personal experience with the theory of the blues and improvisation allows me to observe the release and tension technique within Toni Morrison's work. ... Morrison intends her work to appear improvised, her words sinuous, like the music of the black culture, which does not rely on words to convey expression; her use of streams of consciousness and non-linear narrative represent such a lyrical style. ... This narrative style contains short, repetitive sentences, creating a rhythmic rhetoric if read and repeated. ... There is a disorder of the linear narrative, pre...

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Book Review Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas: An American Slave Written by Himself Introduction: Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born around 1818 into slavery in Talbot Country, Maryland. ... (Ch. 5,  A Narrative). ... American author, abolitionist, and lecturer, Douglas wrote three autobiographies during his life-time;  A Narrative on the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave  (1845),  My Bondage and My Freedom  (1855), and  Life and Times of Frederick Douglass  (1881).  ... Chapter one: In chapter one from the very beginning of his Narrative, ...

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This produced copious perspirations so that the air became unfit for respiration from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died- - thus falling victims of the improvident avarice, as I may call it, of their purchasers" (From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African, London, 1789) In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African the protagonist recounts the pain involved in entering this enormous ship, and how, gradually, the more the ship flew over ...

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