In:Narrative and Identity: Studies in Autobiography, Self and Culture
Edited by Jens Brockmeier and Donal Carbaugh
[Studies in Narrative 1] 2001
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 9 July 2001
https://doi.org/10.1075/sin.1.toc
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Table of contents
Introduction
Part I: Narrative and Self Construction: Theoretical Perspectives23
Self-making and world-making
Narrative: Problems and promises of an alternative paradigm
Metaphysics and narrative: Singularities and multiplicities of self
Narrative integrity: Autobiographical identity and the meaning of the “good life”
Part II: Worlds of Identity: Life Stories in Cultural Context101
“The people will come to you”: Blackfeet narrative as a resource for contemporary living
Narratives of national identity as group narratives: Patterns of interpretive cognition
“You’re marked”: Breast cancer, tattoo, and the narrative performance of identity
Part III: Between Past and Present: Autobiographical Memory and Narrative Identity185
Richard Wagner’s creative vision at La Spezia: or The retrospective interpretation of experience in autobiographical memory as a function of an emerging identity
Identity and narrative in Piaget’s autobiographies
From the end to the beginning: Retrospective teleology in autobiography
: Concluding commentary281
From substance to story: Narrative, identity, and the reconstruction of the self
List of contributors299
Credits and acknowledgements301
Index
