Publications — Jean-Christophe Cloutier

Books

Shadow Archives:
The Lifecycles of African American Literature

Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem

Amiable with Big Teeth by Claude McKay

La vie est d’hommage de Jack Kerouac

The Unknown Kerouac

Sur le chemin de Jack Kerouac

“Posthumous in Marseille: Claude McKay’s Transnational Provenance(s).” [accepted, forthcoming—invited contribution for upcoming American Literary History special issue on the centenary of the Harlem Renaissance]
“The Essentials of Archival Prose,” The Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac. Ed. Steven Belletto (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024).
“Going the Distance: Rocky Balboa & The Sweet Science of Endurance,” Museum of Unknown Boxers catalog, Stellenbosch University Museum, South Africa. Artworks and curation by Kurt Campbell, 2019.
“Jack Kerouac’s Love Affair with Libraries” Journal of Beat Studies, Volume 7, 2019. [bilingual (French and English)]
“Harlem is Now Here,” Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem (Göttingen, Germany: Steidl / The Gordon Parks Foundation / The Art Institute of Chicago, 2016).
“Amiable with Big Teeth: The Case of Claude McKay’s Last Novel.” Modernism/modernity, Volume 20, Number 3, September 2013. pp. 557-576.
“A Country for Old Men: Unforgiven, The Shootist, and the Post-Heyday Western.” The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (formerly Cinema Journal) 51, No. 4 (Summer 2012). pp. 110-129.
“The Comic-Book World of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction. 43.2 (Summer 2010). pp. 294-319.

“The Author Who Didn’t Care to be Remembered: On the Curious Case of Ann Petry,” Literature Hub, October 4, 2019.
“Un demi-siècle sous l’influence de Kerouac,” Le Devoir, October 2019. [in French]
“Translator’s Note,” The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly-Translated Writings. Ed. Todd Tietchen, trans. Jean-Christophe Cloutier (New York: Library of America, 2016).
“Les Travaux de Jean-Louis Kerouac",” La vie est d’hommage (Montréal: Boréal, 2016;2022) [in French]
“Batman Year 100.” Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: HEROES & SUPERHEROES. Eds. Bart Beaty and Stephen Weiner. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2012).
“Powerful Images Recollected in Tranquility.” Review of Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White, by Lila Quintero Weaver. Public Books, July 2012.

Jack Kerouac. “The Night is My Woman” [La nuit est ma femme] and “On the Road: Old Bull in the Bowery” [Sur le chemin]. The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings. Ed. Todd T. Tietchen. (New York: Library of America, 2016), pp. 63-97; 173-237.
Jean-Luc Nancy. “Answering for Sense.” A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy. Eds. James Bono et al. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. pp. 84-93.
Willy Apollon, “Psychoanalytic knowledge and its transmission in the school.” Transmission II (a) the journal of culture and the unconscious VII: 1, 2007-2008. pp.11-19. With Steven Miller.
Jean-Luc Nancy, “The Image: Mimesis & Methexis,” theory@buffalo, Issue #11, 2007. pp. 9-26. With Ron Estes.
Bernard Baas, “Semblance: Putting Philosophizing to the Test.” UMBR(a): A Journal of the Unconscious. Semblance, no.1. Buffalo: Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture, 2007. pp. 85-97.Finding Aids for Archival Collections [Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University]