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Article: Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction.(Review)
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- March 22, 2001
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James T. Jones. Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1999. 278 pp. ISBN 0-8093-2263-3, $34.95.
This study of Kerouac is not a biography in any standard sense. Due to the heavily autobiographical nature of Kerouac's fiction, Jones is able to draw primarily on the fiction to construct a representation of Kerouac himself. This in itself constitutes a difficult project, one necessitating a constant crossing and recrossing of the boundaries of autobiographical and fictional writing. While Kerouac, a creative writer, may take all the liberties he likes with these generic lines, the situation is ...