Expanding Jack Kerouacâs âAmericaâ: Canadian Revisions of On the Road
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Abstract
Expanding Jack Kerouac's "America" 33 that Canadian presence, with its ghostly manifestation.In the first half of the article, I will focus on the Qubcois storm of history that propelled Kerouac into the Canadian literary milieu with a controversial status, and in the second half, I will discuss the two kinds of literature that Canadians inspired by Kerouac have created: historical revisions of On the Road, and biographical revisions of Jack Kerouac.On the Road might invoke the mythology of "America" (e.g. the United States), but it has also, in the past twenty-five years, evoked a response from writers who, like Kerouac, come from Francophone Canadian roots and feel compelled to re-tell Kerouac's story and history of "America," filling in their ghostly image with more concrete, alternate facts, myths, and stories.In their revisions, these authors illuminate the multiple, competing histories that make up the "America" Kerouac elegizes, as well as the landscape he omits.By bringing to light the French and Canadian histories that also constitute the road Sal traverses, the trip to Canada that Sal does not make (although Kerouac did), and the intrinsic French Canadianness of the author, these revisions remind readers that Jack Kerouac was, as he dubbed his in-text self, a "French Canadian Iroquois American aristocrat Breton Cornish democrat or beat hipster" (Kerouac, Angels, 370).At the same time, they remind us that "America" is itself a complex discursive and geographical space of parallel, overlapping, and integrated
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