Rewriting Homeless Identity - Writing As Coping in an Urban Homeless Community

Informationen zum Autor Jeremy S. Godfrey is postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona. Klappentext Rewriting Homeless Identity focuses on the identities of untrained homeless writers who negotiated their experiences on the streets through individual writing personas at writing workshops. This book highlights ethnographic research into the writing samples to explore identity and growth through the writing process. Zusammenfassung Rewriting Homeless Identity focuses on the identities of untrained homeless writers who negotiated their experiences on the streets through individual writing personas at writing workshops. This book highlights ethnographic research into the writing samples to explore identity and growth through the writing process. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Identification through ParticipationChapter 2: Survey of U.S. Street Paper DiscourseChapter 3: Discourse Analysis of An SNP PhenomenonChapter 4: Public Writing and Private ContextChapter 5: Coping As Life MotivationChapter 6: Other Examples of CopingConclusionAppendix: Transcribed Interviews with Some Writers of the Workshop and Overlook

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy S Godfrey, Jeremy S. Godfrey, Godfrey Jeremy S.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.12.2015
• EAN: 9780739190357
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-9035-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness