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

Other author Holladay, Hilary.
Other author Holton, Robert, 1950-
Format Book
Publication InfoCarbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxiii, 214 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008014766
ISBN9780809328833 (alk. paper)
ISBN0809328836 (alk. paper)

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