مجلة البحوث و الدراسات الإنسانية
Volume 18, Numéro 2, Pages 51-63
2024-12-31
Roaming Beyond Orthodoxy: Intellectual Nomadism In Jack Kerouac’s The Sea Is My Brother (2011)
Authors : Kherif Sonia .
Abstract
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) is an American novelist, poet, and the leader of the Beat movement. He captured the Beat spirit of the time through his writings that portray a series of movements and travels around and beyond America. This is reflected in his writings, wherein his characters are either artists, intellectuals, or simply beatniks, who seek self-actualization and attempt to overcome systematic dogmas and institutionalized beliefs. In his posthumously published novel, The Sea Is My Brother (2011), Kerouac delineates characters stifled by striated spaces while creating non-static rhetoric in deconstructing spaces and demarcations. This paper investigates how traveling and intellectual nomadism are portrayed in Kerouac's novel, mainly through the character Bill Everhart, a university professor, who initially undergoes an existential conundrum. The analysis hinges on Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's "private thinker,” a concept that advocates nomad thought and gives rise to psychical nomadism through defying confining institutions. The paper, accordingly, proposes that Kerouac’s intellectual character experiences ontological becoming through deconstructing capitalist institutions and spaces, for he chooses to travel to a smooth space and maintain a nomad thought.
Keywords
nomad thought, intellectual, private thinker, traveling, space.
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