"You're Putting Me on": Jack Kerouac and the Postmodern Emergence
Item
Title
"You're Putting Me on": Jack Kerouac and the Postmodern Emergence
Creator
Johnson, Ronna C.
Description
Article exploring the self-referential literature of Jack Kerouac as cause, commentary, and resistance to his "Beat Movement" celebrity in the 1950s and 1960s. How Jack's engagement with fame is exercised in his literature, or in other public appearances, and signals a literary ground on which American letters can begin to see characteristics of what would become known as "postmodern." Analysis of Kerouac's television appearance on The Steve Allen Show; emphasis on his novels "Vanity of Dulouz," "Visions of Cody," and "The Subterraneans," with constant reference to the success and interpretation of "On the Road." Explorations of critical thinker Michel Foucault's ideas on the concepts of "guilt" and "punishment," and of Jean Beaudrillard's notion of the "simulacrum."
Date
2000-01-01
Language
en
Type
Journal Article
Identifier
Coverage
1950-1967
New York, New York
United States
ISSN
0093-3139
Publication Title
College Literature
Volume
27
Number
1
Pages
22-38