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Article: A White Man in Love: A Study of Race, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Jack Kerouac's Maggie Cassidy, The Subterraneans, and Tristessa.
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- January 1, 2000
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Jack Kerouac is generally not thought of as a writer of love stories, his name more readily evoking images of jazz, poetry, Buddhism, the boy gang, and cars zooming along the omnipresent road. But a considerable portion of his Duluoz legend is devoted to representations of women he loved. Maggie Cassidy, written in 1953, introduced the portrait of Mary Carney, an Irish girl who was his high school sweetheart. Later that same year he used The Subterraneans to record his brief but intense relationship with Alene Lee, an African-American woman whom he renamed Mardou Fox for purposes of publication. In 1955-56, he wrote Tristessa, a reflection upon Esperanza Tercerero, an ...
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Article: Kerouac stories, letters mine both ends of career
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... ... Early Stories and Other Writings. By Jack Kerouac. Viking. 272 pages. $24.95. Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1957-1969. Edited by ... which turned down several of the late Jack Kerouac's novels after the uproarious success of ...
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