A Quest for Language : Jack Kerouac as a Minor Author

Deneire, Marc

Article characterizing the literary works of Jack Kerouac as elements of his search for personal, religious, ethnic, and linguistic identity. Particular emphasis on Kerouac's French Canadian heritage roots. The ways in which Kerouac's novels can be interpreted in light of what theorists Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari call "a minor literature," and how these novels unsettle - as the author says - "traditional English prose." Chapter 16 in "Diaspora, Identity, and Language Communities," an issue of Studies in Linguistic Sciences: Illinois Working Papers.

Full text (Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship)

2001 spring

IDEALS (Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship)

en

Journal Article

20th century

Lowell, Massachusetts

0049-2388

Studies in Linguistic Sciences

31

1

253-267