Challenging existing perceptions of narrative authority is a common writing practice among authors. Although Morrison works to reevaluate the role of the narrative voice, he does so in an unconventional way. In his novel Jazz, Morrison draws attention to the narrator's unreliability through his inconsistency and bias. 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 that was known about her past is revealed through her “personality” that emerges in the telling of the story. The process of getting to know each other is complicated by the continuous change of the narrative personality. Often the narrator speaks from the perspective of a common voice, but also shifts to a more personal register. In one of her rare interruptions with a more personal tone, the narrator explains "People say I should come out more," but this is one of the few times she talks about any kind of relationship with other people (Morrison 7) . Usually, the narrator adopts an omnipresent and removed persona. The breakdown of this character throughout the novel contributes to the narrator's unpredictable way of presenting himself in relation to the text. There are other variations in narrative personality outside of persona changes. Just like the inconsistency of narrative style in the story, the narrator often changes the mood and how he relates to the characters. Because of the narrator's conflicting… middle of paper… and biased attitudes, which drastically affects how the story is told and read. Morrison challenges the conventional narrator, who links his text to postmodernist thought. Finally, when Morrison assigns the identity of the book to the narrator, he connects the narrative style of the book itself to African-American and postmodern culture. Work Cited "Discover the history of English: more than 600,000 words, over a thousand years." Home: Oxford English Dictionary. Network. 19 March 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, Toni. 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. Press.