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xxvii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
The Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac brings together nineteen leading Kerouac scholars, who offer fresh perspectives on his multifaceted body of work, ranging from detailed analyses of his most significant books to wide-angle perspectives that place Kerouac in key literary, theoretical and cultural contexts.
A Kerouac chronology / Brett Sigurdson -- Introduction / Steven Belletto -- Kerouac's concept of his Duluoz legend / Ann Charters -- Kerouac and the profession of authorship / Matt Theado -- Truth in confession : the foundation of Kerouac's literary experiment / Nancy M. Grace -- The textuality of performance : Kerouac's spontaneous prose / Tim Hunt -- The spontaneous aesthetic in The subterraneans / George Mouratidis -- Kerouac and the 1950s / Douglas Field -- The impact of On the road on the Sixties' counterculture / Kurt Hemmer -- Vanity of Duluoz and the 1960s / David Stephen Calonne -- Late Kerouac, or the conflicted "King of the Beatniks" / Steven Belletto -- Visions of Cody as metafiction / Michael Hrebeniak -- Making the past present : Kerouac and memory / Erik Mortenson -- Spun rhythms : Kerouac as poet / Regina Weinreich -- Kerouac's representations of women / Ronna C. Johnson -- Kerouac and Blackness / Amor Kohli -- Kerouac, multilingualism, and global culture / Hassan Melehy -- The two phases of Kerouac's American Buddhism / Sarah Haynes -- Kerouac's ambivalences as an environmental writer / Franca Bellarsi -- The essentials of archival prose / Jean-Christophe Cloutier.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277) and index.