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1. 1. Resistance Through Space : A Comparative Study of Narrative and Space in Naked Lunch and On the Road

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Luca Pirro; [2016]
   Keywords : Beat; space; resistance; control; cut-up; travel narrative; Kerouac; Burroughs; Foucault;

   Abstract : This essay compares two influential novels from the Beat era, William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, and how they use the spatial dimension of writing as a tool for resistance. The spatiality of Kerouac’s travel narrative is compared to the spatiality of Burroughs cut-up narrative, and the spaces of cities and the road are analyzed. READ MORE