[A] pioneer Beat symbol[,] dog-eared[,] slung avant-garde namecheck trope belonging to men.
[He] explore[d] sex, drugs, and art [through] anarchist characters.
[The] face [of] renewed Kerouac. [A] post-pandemic revival casting off convention [to] chase [an] aspirational iconoclast.
[A model for] white male privilege[?] [A] [convenient] alter ego [whose] misogyny looks overt[,] gleeful.
[The] contradictory author elsewhere rails [for] gender[,] sexuality[,] queerness[,] deep empathy [for] [marginalized] people.
[T]ortured [by] masculinity [like a] Don Draper Kerouac hallucination.
[He] was working-class[,] Catholic[,] [an immigrant who] struggled against materialism [and] consumer culture [only to become] co-opted.
[He left behind] spirituality[,] respect [for] nature, [andĀ an] emergent[,] telepathic shock.
Source:
āThe road well travelled: 100 years of Jack Kerouac.ā Elle Hunt. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/12/road-well-travelled-100-years-of-jack-kerouac