{"product_id":"9780809328833","title":"What's Your Road, Man?: Critical Essays on Jack Kerouac's On the Road","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe ten essays in this groundbreaking compilation cover a broad range of topics, employing a variety of approaches, including theoretical interpretations and textual and comparative analysis, to investigate such issues as race, class, gender, and sexuality, as well as the novel's historical and literary contexts.\u003ci\u003e What's Your Road, Man? Critical Essays on Jack Kerouac's \"On the Road\"\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates the richness of the critical work currently being undertaken on this vital American narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining essays from renowned Kerouac experts and emerging scholars,\u003ci\u003e What's Your Road, Man? \u003c\/i\u003edraws on an enormous amount of research into the literary, social, cultural, biographical, and historical contexts of Kerouac's canonical novel. Since its publication in 1957,\u003ci\u003e On the Road\u003c\/i\u003e has remained in print and has continued to be one of the most widely read twentieth-century American novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeveral essays enhance understanding of the book by comparing it with alternative versions of the text, like the original 1951 scroll manuscript and some of Kerouac's other novels, and with works by Kerouac's contemporaries such as Sylvia Plath's\u003ci\u003e The Bell Jar. \u003c\/i\u003eFurther studies explore ethnicity, identity, and the novel's place in American literature as well as its relevance to twenty-first century readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e has inspired readers for more than fifty years, and the new research included in\u003ci\u003e What's Your Road, Man?\u003c\/i\u003e introduces fresh perspectives on this classic work of American literature. Editors Hilary Holladay and Robert Holton have successfully woven little-known material with new understandings of familiar topics that will enlighten current and future generations of Kerouac enthusiasts and scholars for years to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016388428016,"sku":"9780809328833","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780809328833_p0.jpg?v=1763727469","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809328833","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}