Table of Contents

1. Introduction (by Brockmeier, Jens); 2. Part I: Narrative and Self Construction: Theoretical Perspectives; 3. Self-making and world-making (by Bruner, Jerome S.); 4. Narrative: Problems and promises of an alternative paradigm (by Brockmeier, Jens); 5. Metaphysics and narrative: Singularities and multiplicities of self (by Harre, Rom); 6. Narrative integrity: Autobiographical identity and the meaning of the "good life" (by Freeman, Mark); 7. Part II: Worlds of Identity: Life Stories in Cultural Context; 8. "The people will come to you": Blackfeet narrative as a resource for contemporary living (by Carbaugh, Donal); 9. Narratives of national identity as group narratives: Patterns of interpretive cognition (by Feldman, Carol Fleisher); 10. "You're marked": Breast cancer, tattoo, and the narrative performance of identity (by Langellier, Kristin M.); 11. Part III: Between Past and Present: Autobiographical Memory and Narrative Identity; 12. Richard Wagner's creative vision at La Spezia: or The retrospective interpretation of experience in autobiographical memory as a function of an emerging identity (by Sehulster, Jerome R.); 13. Identity and narrative in Piaget's autobiographies (by Voneche, Jacques); 14. From the end to the beginning: Retrospective teleology in autobiography (by Brockmeier, Jens); 16. From substance to story: Narrative, identity, and the reconstruction of the self (by Freeman, Mark); 17. List of contributors; 18. Credits and acknowledgements; 19. Index