Challenging existing perceptions of narrative authority is a common writing practice among authors. As Morrison strives to reevaluate the role of the narrative voice, she does so in an unconventional way. In his novel Jazz, Morrison draws attention to the unreliability of the narrator through his inconsistencies and prejudices. Morrison's flawed narrator helps connect his book to postmodernist African American themes. By restructuring the narrative role within the book, Morrison makes his book Jazz a postmodernist text. Morrison initially creates an unreliable narrator through the inconsistency of the narrative voice. Because Morrison does not reveal the narrator's identity until the end of the novel, everything we know about her past is revealed through her "personality" which comes through in the telling of the story. The process of knowing is complicated by the continuous change of the narrative personality. Often the narrator speaks from the perspective of a community voice, but also shifts to a more personal register. In one of her rare breaks in a more personal tone, the narrator explains, "People say I should go out more," but this is one of the few times she talks about any kind of relationship with others ( Morrison 7). Usually, the narrator adopts an omnipresent and distant persona. The rupture of this character throughout the novel contributes to the unpredictable way the narrator presents herself in relation to the text. There are other variations in narrative personality aside from personality changes. Much like the inconsistency of the story's narrative style, the narrator frequently changes her mood and relationship with the characters. Due to the narrator's discordant ... middle of paper ... and biased attitudes, which greatly affects how the story is both told and read. Morrison challenges the conventional narrator, who links his text to postmodernist thought. Finally, when Morrison attributes the book's identity to the narrator, she connects the narrative style of the book itself to African American and postmodern culture. Home: Oxford English Dictionary. Internet. March 19, 2012. .Dubey, Madhu. “The Postmodern Moment in Black Literary and Cultural Studies.” Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2003. Print. Morrison, Tony. Jazz. New York: Plume, 1993. Print. West, Cornel. “Nihilism in Black America.” Black popular culture. By Gina Dent and Michele Wallace. Seattle: Bay, 1992. 37-47. Print.