Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction

2001 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 425-426
Author(s):  
J. Whalen-Bridge
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Fiction ◽  
Duluoz Legend

Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy: Politics in the Vernaculars

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernice Schrank
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Great Variability ◽  
The Political ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Cultural Assumptions ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Autobiographical Fiction ◽  
Literature And Language

This essay examines the political uses to which Behan puts language in his autobiographical fiction, Borstal Boy, both as an instrument of domination and a means of liberation. Identifying Standard English language and literature as important components of the British imperial project, Behan creates, as a linguistic alternative, ‘englishes’, a composite language in which differences of geography, class, age, education, and occupation create a demotic speech of great variability and expressive force. In so doing, Behan sabotages the cultural assumptions and justifications for colonial exploitation embedded and validated in Standard English literature and language.

scholarly journals The Nomadic War Machine in Jack Kerouac’s Vanity of Duluoz and On the Road

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Social ◽  
War Machine ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Post War ◽  
Alter Ego ◽  
Duluoz Legend ◽  
Iconic Figure

This study inquiries into Jack Kerouac’s Vanity of Duluoz (1968) and On the Road (1957) from the perspective of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s nomadic war machine. It shifts from a rigorous scrutiny of Vanity of Duluoz for its general account of the Duluoz legend, Kerouac’s alter ego, to the study of On the Road for its more specific narrative of a certain period in Kerouac’s life. Being an iconic figure of rebellion and non-conformity in capitalist America during the postwar era, Kerouac’s literary works have a certain social and political magnitude that falls within the discourse of deconstructing orthodoxy and dogma. The study elucidates how Kerouac’s characters subvert the social norms and the state’s institutions in order to break free from pre-structured beliefs. The thesis of the article is to corroborate that such non-conformity and insubordination, exemplified in Kerouac’s autobiographical works, align with the nomadic characteristic of Deleuze and Guattari’s war machine. By extension, it aims at presenting Kerouac as the Deleuzeguattarian nomad who creates nomadic characters that deterritorialize post-war America from within.

A Biography of Faith

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linden Bicket
Keyword(s):  
Religious Life ◽  
John Henry Newman ◽  
Autobiographical Writing ◽  
Muriel Spark ◽  
Autobiographical Fiction ◽  
Spiritual Self ◽  
Intertextual Connections ◽  
Clear Idea

This chapter concentrates on three major biographical strands in order to obtain a clear idea of Brown’s literary Catholicism. It explores the trajectory of Brown’s religious life through his unpublished early manuscripts, autobiographical fiction, and letters to various correspondents. It examines his autobiography, For the Islands I Sing, in relation to the traditions of spiritual self-writing by other literary converts. The chapter also investigates the intertextual connections between George Mackay Brown’s work and the autobiographical writing of John Henry Newman, Edwin Muir, and Muriel Spark, among others.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Gretchen Murphy
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
Judith Sargent Murray ◽  
Autobiographical Fiction ◽  
Lydia Sigourney ◽  
Protestant Christianity ◽  
Democratic Life

Beginning with a discussion of partisan politics in Catharine Sedgwick’s juvenile letters and her autobiographical fiction, the introduction makes a case for considering five prominent New England women authors (Sedgwick, Judith Sargent Murray, Sally Sayward Wood, Lydia Sigourney, and Harriet Beecher Stowe) as profoundly influenced by and invested in a Federalist understanding of religion in a republic. This investment, which treats Protestant Christianity as a force necessary for public morality in democratic life, shaped their writing careers and forms an unacknowledged contribution to political and religious debates about church and state in the early republic and nineteenth century. Situating this argument as a contribution to scholarship in literary studies, postsecular studies, and political history, the introduction explains contributions to each area.

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