Boxcar Politics: The Hobo in U.S. Culture and Literature, 1869-1956

ISBN-13: 9781625341204 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 232 str.

John Lennon

Opis

This title 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. The book 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.