What's Your Road, Man?

by Holladay, Hilary; Holton, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780809328833
• ISBN10: 0809328836
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-27
• Publisher: Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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.

Author Biography

Hilary Holladay, a professor of English and the director of the Jack and Stella Kerouac Center for American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, is the author of Wild Blessings: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton.

 

Robert Holton is a professor of English and associate dean of graduate studies at Carleton University. His most recent book is On the Road: Jack Kerouac's Ragged American Journey.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Revisions of Kerouac: The Long, Strange Trip of the On the Road Typescripts	p. 8
Free Ways and Straight Roads: The Interstates of Sal Paradise and 1950s America	p. 35
The Tenement Castle: Kerouac's Lumpen-Bohemia	p. 60
"Adventures in Auto-Eroticism": Economies of Traveling Masculinity in On the Road and The First Third	p. 77
Parallel Destinies in The Bell Jar and On the Road	p. 99
"Dedicated to America, Whatever That Is": Kerouac's Versions of On the Road	p. 118
When Mexico Looks like Mexico: The Hyperrealization of Race and the Pursuit of the Authentic	p. 139
The Makings of Paradise	p. 155
Typetalking: Voice and Performance in On the Road	p. 169
Can On the Road Go on the Screen?	p. 187
Contributors	p. 205
Index	p. 207
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