The Tramp in AmericaReaktion Books, 2001 - 255 pages This book provides the first account of the invention of the tramp as a social type in the United States between the 1870s and the 1930s. Tim Cresswell considers the ways in which the tramp was imagined and described and how, by World War II, it was being reclassified and rendered invisible. He describes the "tramp scare" of the late nineteenth century and explores the assumption that tramps were invariably male and therefore a threat to women. Cresswell also examines tramps as comic figures and looks at the work of prominent American photographers which signaled a sympathetic portrayal of this often-despised group. Perhaps most significantly, The Tramp in America calls into question the common assumption that mobility played a central role in the production of American identity. “This is an effective, and sometimes touching, account of how a social phenomenon was created, classified and reclassified. The quality of the writing, the excellent illustrations and the high production standards give this reasonably-priced hardback a chance of appealing to a general audience . . . an important contribution to American studies, providing new perspectives on the significance of mobility and rootlessness at an important time in the development of the nation. Cresswell successfully illuminates the history of a disadvantaged and marginal group, while providing a lens by which to focus on the thinking and practices of the mainstream culture with which they dealt. As such, this book represents a considerable achievement.”—Cultural Geographies “An important book. Cresswell has made an important contribution to a homelessness literature still lacking a more sophisticated theoretical edge. Clearly written, beautifully illustrated and with a strong argument throughout, the book deserves to be widely read by students and practitioners alike.”—Progress in Human Geography |
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Table des matières
Acknowledgements | 7 |
The Tramp in Context | 23 |
Knowing the Tramp | 48 |
Gendering the Tramp | 87 |
Pathologizing the Tramp ΙΙΟ | 127 |
Picturing the Tramp | 171 |
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Anderson Antiquarian and Landmarks argued audience became Ben Reitman body Butler-McCook Archives California central Century Magazine Chaplin Chaplin's tramp character Charlie Chaplin Chicago School clothes comedy comic concentric ring model construction criminals culture deviance disease documentary photography Dorothea Lange Ernest Burgess female tramps film Flâneur Flynt forms of knowledge fugue gender geography groups Happy Hooligan Hartford hobo homeless Ian Hacking Ibid illus images labour Landmarks Society Lange's laughter linked Little Tramp lives London male marginal masculine McCook migrants mobility Modern moral movement nomadic normal Outcast Outcast Islands pathological photographs picture police poor problem produced prostitutes railroad Reitman Riis Riis's road rôle Roy Stryker slapstick social reformers Sociology space stories Stryker suggested syphilis threat Tim Cresswell train tramp laws tramp scare tramps and hobos transformation transgression vagabond vagrancy vagrancy laws vaudeville wandering woman women workers York
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