Themes in "Tracks" and "Jazz" 
.... For example,
Violet and
Joe come to New York in 1906, the initial maturation period for jazz as an American historical artifact that also coincides with the ....
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African American Experience in Literature
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Joe actually represents a piece of jazz music much like
Violet might be the blues.
Joe's dialogue is peppered with jazz terms like the "slide" of a trombone. ....
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The Writings of Langston Hughes
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Joe actually represents a piece of jazz music much like
Violet might be the blues.
Joe's dialogue is peppered with jazz terms like the "slide" of a trombone. ....
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Rebirth in the Harlem Renaissance
.... Age in Harlem.
Joe and
Violet struggle to deal with racism, but they also struggle to communicate with each other. In the novel ....
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Kerouac - On the Road: Freedom
.... and then draws away, realizing that he is not
Joe, Sal laments, "I wished I were
Joe. I was only myself, Sal Paradise, sad, strolling in this
violet dark, this ....
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The Female Spirit in Two Novels
.... neither black nor blue nor grey nor
violet; rather all those shades together, and a hundred others, which could be seen if one looked into their .... Fisher,
Joe. ....
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