Includes bibliographical references and index.

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