Piers of the Homeless Night
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Piers of the Homeless Night is a section of Jack Kerouac’s travel memoir Lonesome Traveler that recounts his experiences living among drifters and the homeless on waterfront piers.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book section
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literary work ⓘ memoir chapter ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American counterculture literature
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Beat literature ⓘ |
| author | Jack Kerouac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describes |
life among drifters
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life among the homeless ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiographical prose
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travel memoir ⓘ |
| hasAuthorialPersona | Kerouac as wandering traveler ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
informal communities on the margins of society
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transient lifestyles ⓘ urban nightscapes ⓘ |
| includedIn | first edition of Lonesome Traveler ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Beat Generation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jack Kerouac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| partOf | Lonesome Traveler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationEra | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| setting |
urban waterfronts
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waterfront piers ⓘ |
| theme |
alienation
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companionship among drifters ⓘ homelessness ⓘ poverty ⓘ social marginalization ⓘ spiritual searching ⓘ |
| workChronologyRelativeToAuthor | written after On the Road ⓘ |
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