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How the other half lives: Representations of homelessness in American literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	How the other half lives: Representations of homelessness in American literature./
Author:	Allen, John Norbert.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2001,
Description:	241 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 63-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International63-02A.
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3008799
ISBN:	9780493186122

How the other half lives: Representations of homelessness in American literature.
Allen, John Norbert.

How the other half lives: Representations of homelessness in American literature. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2001 - 241 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 63-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 2001.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Although the word "homelessness" currently denotes a specific socio-political issue and condition, homelessness, defined more broadly, has been the subject of literary texts as far back as the Middle Ages. The use of homelessness in literature has been divided between, on the one hand, a glorification of the freedom and adventure associated with life "on the road" and, on the other, a condemnation of the degradation and abjection of those who have been economically or socially displaced. This division has not been questioned and, generally, critical attention has focused on related themes such as exile, alienation, and escape-rather than on homelessness per se. Therefore, this dissertation examines the use of homelessness as a specific theme or trope of American literature. Literary responses to homelessness provide a means of examining ideological struggle over the home, the family, work, and identity in America. While these concepts/values have been discussed separately, I believe that literary texts about homelessness offer a unique and unexamined point of entry into an analysis of these contested values. This dissertation assesses the "cultural work" of representations of homelessness in American literature from the Civil War through the Depression. In Chapter One I contend that Harriet Beecher Stowe consciously used homelessness in Uncle Tom's Cabin as a means of creating empathy for slaves in a way that is analogous to the widely discussed strategy of "maternal empathy." Chapter Two shows how Horatio Alger simultaneously appealed to the sense of freedom associated with homelessness and to the cultural valuation of the home as a marker of status and respectability. Chapter Three questions the objectification of homelessness in the participant-observer works of Stephen Crane and Jacob Riis. Chapter Four looks at the interplay of class, identity, and authorship in several tramp autobiographies, most notably Jack London's The Road. Chapter Five uses Meridel Le Sueur's The Girl to illustrate how American "testimony" has been marginalized and why testimonial literature should be recuperated. The Conclusion suggests that testimony is a valuable but unacknowledged component of the "discourse" of homelessness in American culture.

ISBN: 9780493186122Subjects--Topical Terms:

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American literature.
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Alger, Horatio

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