Elizabeth M. Cannon, in her article “following the traces of female desire in Toni Morrison's Jazz”, debates on Morrison's assertion about the subjectivity of black women and men. Morrison has introduced the concept of black female subjectivity separated from that of black men. She offers that the black women should be aware of their own consciousness aside from the adjuncts of black men. The new black female desire opens “a new concept of male subjectivity not based on the sexist, patriarchal term man but on the ability to recognise women as subjects” (Cannon 6). Morrison shows that race and sex are two systems of oppression, which are interlocked together. They exist in the dominant ideology of western culture. Morrison indicates that black women should mentally have the ability to see themselves as subjects.
Love, gender, race, sex
