In Morrison’s novel Jazz, the black women express their desire for subject construction. The novel shows how the black women represented by Violet resist the suppression of the patriarchal discourse, and finally realize their female identity. This process is compatible with the postmodern feminist conception of identity: it’s driven by the violent element in female desires and realized through intersubjectivity. Morrison’s writing of black women’s identity breaks through the identity paradigm designed by the white race and black men, which has strong postmodern characteristics.