03456nam 2200553 450 991081112820332120230126214421.01-61376-342-5(CKB)3710000000719109(MiAaPQ)EBC4533214(OCoLC)933516762(MdBmJHUP)muse37444(Au-PeEL)EBL4533214(CaPaEBR)ebr11214682(EXLCZ)99371000000071910920160613h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierBoxcar politics the hobo in U.S. culture and literature, 1869-1956 /John LennonAmherst, [Massachusetts] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :University of Massachusetts Press,2014.©20141 online resource (236 pages)Includes index.1-62534-119-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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. John Lennon maps the rise and demise of the political hobo from the nineteenth-century introduction of the transcontinental railroad to the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. Intertwining literary, historical, and theoretical representations of the hobo, he explores how riders and writers imagined alternative ways that working-class people could use mobility to create powerful dissenting voices outside of fixed hierarchal political organizations. Placing portrayals of hobos in the works of Jack London, Jim Tully, John Dos Passos, and Jack Kerouac alongside the lived reality of people hopping trains (including hobos of the IWW, the Scottsboro Boys, and those found in numerous long-forgotten memoirs), Lennon investigates how these marginalized individuals exerted collective political voices through subcultural practices" --Provided by publisher.American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismTramps in literatureHomelessness in literatureMarginality, Social, in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Tramps in literature.Homelessness in literature.Marginality, Social, in literature.810.9/3526942Lennon John1975-1607567MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811128203321Boxcar politics3933914UNINA