IDENTITARY RESISTANCE TO CONFINEMENT AND CONFORMITY:
KEN KESEY’S ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
IDENTITARY RESISTANCE TO CONFINEMENT AND CONFORMITY:
KEN KESEY’S ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
Author(s): Bianca Ionescu (Tănăsescu), Eduard VladSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Editura Universitară & ADI Publication
Keywords: cult fiction; the Combine; the counterculture; psychedelic culture; the Beats;
Summary/Abstract: The author’s of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’s experience as well as his personal inclinations prepared him to play his role of the “psychic outlaw” figure and to serve as the liaison agent between the earlier Beat Generation and the counterculture movement of the 1960s, for which he turned into a cult character and a guru, rivaling Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, and Timothy Leary. The current article describes Ken Kesey’s “psychic outlaw” role in that age of consensus through the mediation of his best-known novel’s protagonists, McMurphy and Chief Bromden. One of them will be able to fly over the cuckoo’s nest.
Journal: International Journal of Cross-Cultural Studies and Environmental Communication
- Issue Year: 8/2019
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 58 - 67
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English