Shelter blues
sanity and selfhood among the homeless
by Robert R. Desjarlais
Shelter Blues is an innovative portrait of people residing in Boston's Station Street Shelter. It examines the everyday lives of more than 40 homeless men and women of various ethnicities, ranging in age from early 20s to mid-60s. Based on a sixteen-month study, it draws readers into the personal worlds of these individuals and, by addressing the intimacies of homelessness, illness, and abjection, picks up where most scholarship and journalism stop.
Robert Desjarlais works against the grain of media representations of homelessness by showing us not anonymous stereotypes but individuals. He draws on conversations as well as observations, talking with and listening to shelter residents to understand how they relate to their environment, to one another, and to those entrusted with their care.
His book considers their lives in terms of a complex range of forces and helps us comprehend the linkages between culture, illness, language, and political agency on the margins of contemporary American society.
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Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood among the Homeless
2011, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Shelter blues: sanity and selfhood among the homeless
1997, University of Pennsylvania Press, University of Pennsylvania
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-301) and index.
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