《爵士乐》是托妮·莫里森继《宠儿》之后又一部伟大的作品。作者再一次将笔触伸向历史背景下美国黑人精神内核的爱情故事,运用独特的叙事技巧重写了“哈雷姆文艺复兴”时期的一段美国历史。作品运用热拉尔.热奈特(Gerard Génette)的聚焦理论分析小说的多重叙事技巧。叙事声音在零聚焦、外聚焦、内聚焦之间变换,特别是多重式内聚焦和不可靠的零聚焦的叙事,展开人物内心世界,挑战了传统叙事者的权威性,引发读者的思考,同时也深化了作品的主题。 Jazz is another great piece by Toni Morrison after Beloved. Once again, the author extends his brushwork to the love story of the African American spiritual core under the historical background and rewrites a section of American history during the “Harrem Renaissance” with unique narrative techniques. The work uses Gerard Génette’s focus theory to analyze the novel’s multiple narrative skills. The narrative voice changes between zero focus, outer focus and inner focus, especially multi-type inner focus and unreliable zero-focus narration, unfurls inner world of characters, challenges the authoritativeness of traditional narrators and initiates readers’ thinking. At the same time Also deepens the theme of the work.