Becoming Corporeality in Toni Morrison’s Jazz

The significance of body in postcolonial feminism is undeniable and third world feminists are well aware of it. Defyingagainst the commanding discourses, they attempt to mold influence by representing the notion of female body as anelement independent from male-centered conceptions. Postcolonial female body has been investigated widely;however, Deleuzian concepts of desiring machine , becoming-woman , masochism and schizoanalysis andGrosz’s ideas of corporeality and volatile bodies still require further research. To this end, the current study analyzesToni Morrison’s Jazz in terms of women body and its function according to Gilles Deleuze and Elizabeth Grosz’stheories. The results of the study indicate that the target characters of the selected novel possess this potentiality torebel against the social structures which are considered as the ultimate truth. They are schizoid individuals who striveto gain their subjectivity and identity through their corporeality interconnected with new assemblages.

Keywords:

Shizoanalysis , Becoming-woman , Volatile Bodies , subjectivity , Desiring-machine