Jeremy S. Godfrey

Rewriting Homeless Identity

Writing as Coping in an Urban Homeless Community

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780739190357
• ISBN-10: 0739190350
• Artikelnr.: 43894670

Autorenporträt

Jeremy S. Godfrey is postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Identification through
Participation Chapter 2: Survey of U.S. Street Paper Discourse Chapter 3:
Discourse Analysis of An SNP Phenomenon Chapter 4: Public Writing and
Private Context Chapter 5: Coping As Life Motivation Chapter 6: Other
Examples of Coping Conclusion Appendix: Transcribed Interviews with Some
Writers of the Workshop and Overlook