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- Title
"Whither goest thou, America?".
- Authors
PRINCE, MICHAEL J.
- Abstract
The article discusses Deterritorialization, Identity, and Fellahin Ideal in context of postwar period novel "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, noting American identity and print culture relation with peregrination novels. Author claims that novel focuses on coherent American Identity reinforcing unity of nation, e pluribus unum, post-World War Two, it identifies life and identities of Sal Paradise as central theme, and suggests a national identity and series of individual identities.
- Subjects
ON the Road (Book : Kerouac); KEROUAC, Jack, 1922-1969; RETERRITORIALIZATION; AMERICAN identity; PRINT culture; PEREGRINE (Book); E pluribus unum (The Latin phrase)
- Publication
Cross / Cultures: Readings in the Post / Colonial Literatures in English, 2015, Vol 179, p187
- ISSN
0924-1426
- Publication type
Article