What's your road, man? : critical essays on Jack Kerouac's On the road / edited by Hilary Holladay and Robert Holton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holladay, Hilary.

Holton, Robert, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. On the road.

Kerouac, Jack.

Autobiographical fiction, American--History and criticism.

Autobiographical fiction, American.

Beats (Persons) in literature.

Physical Description:

xiii, 214 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2009]

Summary:

The ten essays in this groundbreaking volume cover a broad range of topics and employ a variety of approaches-including theoretical interpretations and textual and comparative analysis-to investigate such issues as race, class, gender, and sexuality, as well as the novel's historical and literary contexts. What's Your Road, Man? illustrates the richness of the critical work currently being undertaken on this vital American narrative.

Featuring essays from renowned Kerouac experts as well as emerging scholars, What's Your Road, Man? draws on an enormous amount of research into the literary, social, cultural, biographical, and historical contexts of Kerouac's canonical novel. Since its publication in 1957, On the Road has remained in print and has continued to be one of the most widely read twentieth-century American novels.

Contents:

Revisions of Kerouac: the long, strange trip of the On the road typescripts / Matt Theado

Free ways and straight roads: the interstates of Sal Paradise and 1950s America / Lars Erik Larson

The tenement castle: Kerouac's lumpen-bohemia / Robert Holton

'Adventures in auto-eroticism': economies of traveling masculinity in On the road and the first third / Mary Paniccia Carden

Parallel destinies in The bell jar and On the road / Hilary Holladay

'Dedicated to America, whatever that is': Kerouac's versions of On the road / R.J. Ellis

When Mexico looks like Mexico: the hyperrealization of race and the pursuit of the authentic / Rachel Ligairi

The makings of paradise / Michael Skau

Typetalking: voice and performance in On the road / Tim Hunt

Can On the road go on the screen? / Regina Weinreich.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780809328833

0809328836

OCLC:

219569701