LEADER 03456nam 2200553 450 001 9910811128203321 005 20230126214421.0 010 $a1-61376-342-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000719109 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4533214 035 $a(OCoLC)933516762 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37444 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4533214 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11214682 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000719109 100 $a20160613h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBoxcar politics $ethe hobo in U.S. culture and literature, 1869-1956 /$fJohn Lennon 210 1$aAmherst, [Massachusetts] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (236 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-62534-119-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $a"The hobo is a figure ensconced in the cultural fabric of the United States. Once categorized as a member of a homeless army who ought to be jailed or killed, the hobo has evolved into a safe, grandfatherly exemplar of Americana. Boxcar Politics reestablishes the hobo's political thorns. John Lennon maps the rise and demise of the political hobo from the nineteenth-century introduction of the transcontinental railroad to the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. Intertwining literary, historical, and theoretical representations of the hobo, he explores how riders and writers imagined alternative ways that working-class people could use mobility to create powerful dissenting voices outside of fixed hierarchal political organizations. Placing portrayals of hobos in the works of Jack London, Jim Tully, John Dos Passos, and Jack Kerouac alongside the lived reality of people hopping trains (including hobos of the IWW, the Scottsboro Boys, and those found in numerous long-forgotten memoirs), Lennon investigates how these marginalized individuals exerted collective political voices through subcultural practices" --$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTramps in literature 606 $aHomelessness in literature 606 $aMarginality, Social, in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTramps in literature. 615 0$aHomelessness in literature. 615 0$aMarginality, Social, in literature. 676 $a810.9/3526942 700 $aLennon$b John$f1975-$01607567 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811128203321 996 $aBoxcar politics$93933914 997 $aUNINA