Abstract The present academic analysis will delve into the subject of trauma and female identity as seen in the main female character of Toni Morrison's historical fiction novel Jazz while narrowing its scope to the topic of understanding the fragmented personality, the lack of self-love in order to become obsessed with others and the search for the lost female true self -as a sense of personal female agency. This so-called trauma narrative is set in the harrowing loss of contact of the character with her African-descent ancestry, linked to the traumatic experience of having lost her mother at a very early age and deepened by a context that also intersects brutal racism and gender violence. The present study will be underpinned by research done on the subject of trauma and its narratives by Laurie Vickroy and Cathy Caruth and on Identity and the Self by D.H. Winnicott, and Toni Morrison herself. Keywords Fragmented personality; trauma narratives; true self; female self; violence; racism; intersectionality.