Explaining the Jack Kerouac revival of the 1990s

Explaining the Jack Kerouac revival of the 1990s

In the 1990s, Jack Kerouac went through something of a renaissance. His work had become so ingrained in the American way of life and had become a defining image of a bygone youth culture that he seemed to only gain popularity in the years after his death in 1969, at just 47 years old. Kerouac himself was heralded as a hero of unconventional prose and a rebellious spirit in the American canon, if not a severely troubled one, from when his first w…