April 3, 2025
@ 4:00 PM in
The Bangor room at the Memorial Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jean-Christophe Cloutier will discuss Jack Kerouac\u2019s writerly coming of age from the perspective of his geopolitical and cultural-linguistic reality as a bilingual, first-generation immigrant Franco-American author. Cloutier will address the author\u2019s private French manuscripts, preserved in his archive and published posthumously, to uncover an author who relied on self-translation to negotiate his lifelong dualism between French and English, and who willfully adopted what he called \u201cthe tone of a big American writer\u201d to find literary success in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jean-Christophe Cloutier is originally from Qu\u00e9bec and is currently associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature, and editor of La vie est d\u2019hommage, which gathers the original French writings of Jack Kerouac. He also translated into English two of Kerouac\u2019s French manuscripts for the Library of America\u2019s The Unknown Kerouac. In 2023, Gallimard released his stand-alone edition of Sur le chemin, Kerouac\u2019s longest French manuscript. He is currently completing an extensive study of Kerouac\u2019s oeuvre that explores the writer\u2019s practices as a bilingual novelist, translator, and archivist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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