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"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" --

Tramps --- Political culture --- Politics and literature --- Social values --- Marginality, Social, in literature. --- Homelessness in literature. --- Tramps in literature. --- American literature --- Values --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Hoboes --- Vagabonds --- Vagrants --- Homeless persons --- Poor --- Rogues and vagabonds --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects

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"The aim of this collection is to make possible the forging of a more robust, politically useful, and theoretically elaborate understanding of working-class literature(s). These essays map a substantial terrain: the history of working-class literature(s) in Russia/The Soviet Union, The USA, Finland, Sweden, The UK, and Mexico. Together they give a complex and comparative – albeit far from comprehensive – picture of working-class literature(s) from an international perspective, without losing sight of national specificities.By capturing a wide range of definitions and literatures, this collection gives a broad and rich picture of the many-facetted phenomenon of working-class literature(s), disrupts narrow understandings of the concept and phenomenon, as well as identifies and discusses some of the most important theoretical and historical questions brought to the fore by the study of this literature.If read as stand-alone chapters, each contribution gives an overview of the history and research of a particular nation’s working-class literature. If read as an edited collection (which we hope you do), they contribute toward a more complex understanding of the global phenomenon of working-class literature(s)."

Literature & literary studies --- Literature: history & criticism --- Literary theory --- Literary studies: general --- Marxism & Communism --- Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies --- Working class writings --- Literature & literary studies. --- Literature: history & criticism. --- Literary theory. --- Literary studies: general. --- Marxism & Communism. --- Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies. --- History and criticism.

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Sociology of culture --- Tourism --- Polemology --- tourism --- war memorials --- historic sites --- 864 (Vredes)toerisme --- 866 Herdenking en herinnering