scholarly journals Um painel sobre as obras de Jack Kerouac traduzidas no Brasil na década de 1980

Tradterm ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 247
Author(s):  
Marco Antônio Margarido Costa

O objetivo do presente texto é analisar uma seleta da fortuna crítica de obras de Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) traduzidas no Brasil, na década de 1980. A saber: <em>On the road: pé na estrada, Os subterrâneos, Viajante solitário, O livro dos sonhos </em>e <em>Big Sur. </em>Resultado da pesquisa em fontes primárias, esta análise faz parte da nossa dissertação de mestrado, que, além de fornecer e analisar essa seleta, buscou mostrar o primeiro momento da recepção da obra de Jack Kerouac no Brasil, reconstituir a polêmica gerada acerca das publicações dos textos <em>beat</em> no Brasil e revelar alguns escritores brasileiros que foram influenciados pelos artistas da <em>beat generation</em>, movimento literário norte-americano ocorrido nos anos 1950, ao qual Jack Kerouac pertenceu. O presente artigo mostra, a partir de algumas críticas – ou da relação entre elas –, como Kerouac foi visto no Brasil via tradução, fornecendo assim um painel sobre sua recepção, avaliando o tratamento que lhe foi dado e reconstituindo uma visão do espaço que ocupou na imprensa brasileira.

Author(s):  
Dolores Tierney

This chapter explores how Walter Salles’ Diarios de motocicleta and On the Road use road movie conventions to forward their political agendas. It establishes the interconnectedness of the near contemporaneous journeys recounted in the two films by Cuban revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and author of the seminal novel On the Road (1957) Jack Kerouac and how these are linked to the genesis of the road movie genre. It goes on to analyse how both films use the political strategies of the road movie (rebellion) to (re)explore and update the beginnings of the interconnected social, cultural and political revolutions (the Cuban Revolution, the Beat Generation and their links to the counter culture in the United States). In keeping with the broader aims of the book, this chapter is also about defending the political potential of the genre film and how it is used to address rather than ‘gloss over’ the political history of the continent.


Popular Music ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hopkins

The appearance of On the Road in 1957 signalled the emergence of a new movement in American literature, soon to be called the Beat Generation (Kerouac 1957). Along with Allen Ginsberg's ‘Howl’ of 1956, Kerouac's work brought a new awareness of an intellectual counter-culture bubbling under the conservative surface of 1950s America. The content of these writers' poetry and prose, with its open and honest depiction of hetero-, homo-, and bisexual activity, drug abuse, petty crime, and social deviance was enough to create a sensation, but it is the style that gives the works their permanence and interest today. Kerouac himself used the term ‘bop prose’ to describe his efforts to reform fiction along the lines of avant-garde jazz, where immediacy of expression and technical fluency combine to open new possibilities, supposedly not present in more traditional methods of composition.


Site Reading ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 73-95
Author(s):  
David J. Alworth

This chapter focuses Jack Kerouac and Joan Didion, arguing that the postwar American road narrative produces a sophisticated account of the nonhuman social actor through its treatment of the automobile, an entity that is both a material thing and a social site. In Kerouac's On the Road, a semiautobiographical account of his road trips in the late 1940s, the car plays no less potent a role in facilitating male bonding and in constituting the social world of the novel. To capture the distinctiveness of that world, the chapter contrasts it with the representation of two other automotive subcultures—the hot-rodders and the Merry Pranksters—in seminal works by Tom Wolfe that appeared in the wake of On the Road. Then, the chapter turns to the writing of Joan Didion, arguing that Play It as It Lays functions as a self-conscious response both to Kerouac's novel and to the mythology of road-tripping that it fostered.


2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-25
Author(s):  
Bo McMillan

“The apple pie was more than just ‘nutritious, man.’” Despite frequent critical fixation on the jazz aspects of Jack Kerouac's oeuvre, this reconsideration of the author's canon poses food as a central theme of the Duluoz Legend and analyzes the ways in which Kerouac thought and wrote about food as an object, literary motif, and cultural conduit—modes of thought that, despite previous tracing of contemporary food culture to the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, lead almost directly to many current food issues, practices, and debates. Grounded in Kerouac's attentive engagement with the agricultural overtures of Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West, this article discusses how Kerouac understood, played with, and utilized food as a means of cultural comprehension and then—via jazz—cultural subversion within the “decline” of the West, primarily through his novels The Town and the City (1950), On the Road (1957), and The Dharma Bums (1958).


Author(s):  
Iraj Soleymanjahan ◽  
Nasser Maleki ◽  
Hiwa Weisi

This study aimed to scrutinize and analyze the novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac in the light of the political theory of Michel Foucault. The focus, however, would be specifically on the concepts of normalization, institutions and surveillance put forward in his book Discipline and Punish (1995), coupled with some other works that wrestle with the close links of power, society, and institutions. This research seeked to describe the real America in the 1950s, a decade that witnessed both conformism and radicality, represented in the novel. The study pointed out that the novel was a depiction of the American society in the 1950s in which distinct, overlapping institutions did a great deal in restricting the freedom of individuals who seeked liberation and authenticity. The American government draws on the power of the law, police, prison, academia, family, and different other overlapping and satellite institutions, working hand in hand to create a matrix. The concept of matrix, therefore, highlights the nexus through which the normalization and conformity of the individuals are guaranteed, leading to the creation of perfect institutionalized men who are reduced to the level of simpletons. The whole novel becomes the story of some men who advocate abnormality as their credo to live a free life. Quite the contrary, they are transitioned into meek and docile bodies whose identity hinges on being like others in fitting in and following the norms through different dominant fragmenting institutions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuting Liang

On the Road is the masterpiece of Kerouac who is one of the most important writers of “Beat Generation” in America in the mid-20th century. It is acclaimed to be the Bible of “Beat Generation”. The novel narrates the stories of how Dean and his friends——some representative characters of the Beats travelled across continental U.S. several times and searched for new lifestyles and new faith on the road. In this novel, male characters are the main characters and the descriptions of all the female characters account for just one sixth of the whole book. Although the portrayal of the female characters is not profound like that of the male characters, the different personalities Kerouac endued the female characters are also the highlights of the novel. As a novel with strong nature of autobiography, Kerouac put his attitude and emotion into his portrayal. So it also can be a reflection of Kerouac’s female concepts. This paper aims at analyzing the female characters in On the Road by studying the types of the female characters in the novel and summarizing Kerouac’s female concepts reflected from the novel.


2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-146
Author(s):  
Diana Junkes ◽  
Luiz Carlos De Brito Rezende ◽  
Ivan Pérsio de Arruda Campos
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
The Road ◽  

Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar uma transcriação eficaz do parágrafo final de On the road de Jack Kerouac, que recupere a melopeia presente no original, mas usualmente desconsiderada ou não percebida em muitas das traduções desse texto para outras línguas. Mobilizam-se aqui, para fazê-lo, as contribuições à teoria da tradução oferecidas por Haroldo de Campos em inúmeros artigos, ensaios e conferências, ao longo de quarenta anos. Após breve apresentação do livro, o artigo faz um surveyconceitual do pensamento haroldiano sobre a tradução, em seguida propõe a transcriação do trecho da obra de Kerouac referido acima, com ênfase no trabalho recriador, e cotejando as soluções propostas para o fragmento com traduções para o português feitas em Portugal e no Brasil, expandindo-se a seguir o âmbito da comparação para incluir o francês, oespanhol e o italiano. É digno de nota que, dentre essas traduções, apena a italiana demonstra um esforço bem sucedido de recuperação melopáica.  


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