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This chapter begins by elucidating the role of mobility in Che Guevara’s guerilla warfare as a means of resisting oppressive regimes. These mobile strategies are juxtaposed with the wanderings of Jack Kerouac, and some of the other Beats as a method of cultural warfare, one that also aimed to resist what they felt was the oppressive regime of post-war homogenization and uniformity in American culture. Just as Guevara’s tactics proved effective by remaining on the move and ready to strike from remote locations in the jungle, Kerouac and his pals also remained mobile within the cultural jungle, launching attacks at the establishment while promoting alternative concepts of mobility and ways of being.
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- 1.
Che Guevara, Guerilla Warfare, Intro. Marc Becker (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). x.
- 2.
Brain Loveman and Thomas M. Davies Jr. in Che Guevara, Guerrilla Warfare, Intro. Brain Loveman and Thomas M. Davies Jr. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002). 5.
- 3.
Marc Becker in Che Guevara, Guerilla Warfare, Intro. Marc Becker (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). vi.
- 4.
Che Guevara, Guerilla Warfare, Intro. Marc Becker (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). 18.
- 5.
Ibid. 30.
- 6.
Ibid. 46.
- 7.
Ibid. 143.
- 8.
Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin America Journey (Melbourne, VIC: Ocean Press, 2003). 30.
- 9.
Ibid. 69.
- 10.
Ibid. 49.
- 11.
Ibid. 46.
- 12.
Che Guevara, Guerilla Warfare, Intro. Marc Becker (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). 10.
- 13.
Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin America Journey (Melbourne, VIC: Ocean Press, 2003). 3.
- 14.
Neal Cassady is portrayed as Dean Moriarty. Kerouac changed all of the real names of the people in his novel at the urging of his publisher in order to avoid any lawsuits. Kerouac changed his own name to Sal Paradise.
- 15.
Jack Kerouac, On the Road (Penguin Books, 1999). 23.
- 16.
Ibid. 110.
- 17.
Ibid. 20.
- 18.
Ibid. 227.
- 19.
Jason Spangler, “We’re on a Road to Nowhere: Steinbeck, Kerouac, and the Legacy of the Great Depression.” Studies in the Novel 40, no. 3, 2008, 321.
- 20.
Tim Cresswell, “Mobility as Resistance: A Geographical Reading of Kerouac’s ‘On the Road,’” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 18, no. 2 (1993). 254.
- 21.
Ibid. 260.
- 22.
Jason Spangler, “We’re on a Road to Nowhere: Steinbeck, Kerouac, and the Legacy of the Great Depression.” Studies in the Novel 40, no. 3, 2008, 319.
- 23.
Roger Bill, “Traveller or Tourist? Jack Kerouac and the Commodification of Culture,” Dialectical Anthropology 34, no. 3 (2010). 398.
- 24.
Tim Cresswell, “Mobility as Resistance: A Geographical Reading of Kerouac’s ‘On the Road,’” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 18, no. 2 (1993). 249.
- 25.
Lars Erik Larson in What’s Your Road, Man?: Critical Essays on Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Eds. Hilary Holladay and Robert Holton (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008). 35.
- 26.
Mary Paniccia Carden in What’s Your Road, Man?: Critical Essays on Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Eds. Hilary Holladay and Robert Holton (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008). xii.
- 27.
Tim Cresswell, “Mobility as Resistance: A Geographical Reading of Kerouac’s ‘On the Road,’” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 18, no. 2 (1993). 260.
- 28.
Pussy Riot, Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer For Freedom (The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2012). 15.
- 29.
Ibid. 15.
- 30.
Jason Spangler, “We’re on a Road to Nowhere: Steinbeck, Kerouac, and the Legacy of the Great Depression.” Studies in the Novel 40, no. 3, 2008, 312.
- 31.
Lars Erik Larson in What’s Your Road, Man?: Critical Essays on Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Eds. Hilary Holladay and Robert Holton (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008). 35.
- 32.
Jason Spangler, “We’re on a Road to Nowhere: Steinbeck, Kerouac, and the Legacy of the Great Depression.” Studies in the Novel 40, no. 3, 2008, 312.
- 33.
Ibid. 312.
- 34.
Roger Bill, “Traveller or Tourist? Jack Kerouac and the Commodification of Culture,” Dialectical Anthropology 34, no. 3 (2010). 399.
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Blair, G. (2019). Beatniks and Guerrilla Warfare. In: Errant Bodies, Mobility, and Political Resistance. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95747-0_5
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