Boxcar politics the hobo in U.S. culture and literature, 1869-1956
"The hobo is a figure ensconced in the cultural fabric of the United States. Once categorized as a member of a homeless army who ought to be jailed or killed, the hobo has evolved into a safe, grandfatherly exemplar of Americana. Boxcar Politics reestablishes the hobo's political thorns. J...
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Amherst ; Boston
University of Massachusetts Press
[2014]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction
- Views from the boxcar: a historical and theoretical framing of boxcar politics
- The cramped boxcar: Jack London and Kelly's industrial army
- The polyphonic boxcar: the hobo in Jim Tully's Beggars of life
- The radicalized boxcar: hobos, the "speech of the people," and John Dos Passos's U.S.A
- The interracial boxcar: Scottsboro, the great Depression, and wild boys of the road
- The spiritual boxcar: lostness in on the road and the end of the political hobo
- Afterword: the end of boxcar politics