COSMOPOLITANISM AND SPATIAL METAMORPHOSES: JACK KEROUAC AND MIRCEA CĂRTĂRESCU
COSMOPOLITANISM AND SPATIAL METAMORPHOSES: JACK KEROUAC AND MIRCEA CĂRTĂRESCU
Author(s): Alina CojocaruSubject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, Romanian Literature, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: cosmopolitanism; the Beat generation; the 1980s generation; space; metamorphosis;
Summary/Abstract: This article investigates Jack Kerouac's On the Road and The Dharma Bums, as representative novels of the movement known as the Beat generation, alongside Mircea Cărtărescu's Orbitor. Aripa Stîngă (Blinding. The Left Wing), which encapsulates the literary principles of the 1980s generation. These two particular types of narrative literary text will be examined in contrast, focusing on the assimilation in Romanian literature of the Beats' rise against the establishment and focus on the city as a metamorphosing site of cosmopolitanism.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 13
- Page Range: 494-501
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English