Roots Always Precede Routes : On the Road, through a Glass Darkly
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Title
Roots Always Precede Routes : On the Road, through a Glass Darkly
Description
Critical reading of Jack Kerouac's most famous novel, "On the Road," through the lens of French mobility in America and Kerouac's Franco American cultural identity. How Kerouac's traveling characters signify and explore the "homelessness" that the article's author associates with the French Canadian and Franco American in the United States.
From the author: "This article explores the subterranean layers of 'On the Road,' firstly, approaching them from three perspectives (the dyad routes-roots, ethnogenesis and cultural geography), and secondly, considering the novel within a larger project, the 'Road' project, which allows further insight into the genesis of the 1957 edition and of the original scroll published fifty years later. This article focuses on the relationship between space, identity, travel and nation, and attempts to offer a reading of the author’s French-Canadian and Franco-American invisible ethnicity as a guiding line to the 'On the Road' proto-versions and to the themes developed (travel, mapping the land and the quest for the father[land])."
From the author: "This article explores the subterranean layers of 'On the Road,' firstly, approaching them from three perspectives (the dyad routes-roots, ethnogenesis and cultural geography), and secondly, considering the novel within a larger project, the 'Road' project, which allows further insight into the genesis of the 1957 edition and of the original scroll published fifty years later. This article focuses on the relationship between space, identity, travel and nation, and attempts to offer a reading of the author’s French-Canadian and Franco-American invisible ethnicity as a guiding line to the 'On the Road' proto-versions and to the themes developed (travel, mapping the land and the quest for the father[land])."
Creator
Pacini, Peggy
Source
Read/Lire: FULL TEXT/TEXTE INTÉGRAL
Date
2011 March 28
Language
English
Type
Journal Article
Identifier
Unknown/Inconnu
Coverage
1950s; United States
Contribution Form
Zotero
Editor
Lux-Sterritt, Laurence
Sorin, Claire
ISSN
1638-1718
Issue
2
Publication Title
E-rea
Series Title
Femmes et spiritualité
Volume
8