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Part I Narrative and self construction - theoretical perspectives:self-making and world-making; narrative - problems and promises of analternative paradigm; metaphysics and narrative - singularities andmultiplicities of self; narrative integrity - autobiographical identity andthe meaning of the "good life". Part II Worlds of identity - life stories incultural context: "the people will come to you" - Blackfleet narrative as aresource for contemporary living; narratives of national identity as groupnarratives - patterns of interpretive cognition; "you're marked" - breastcancer, tattoo and the narrative performance of identity. Part III Betweenpast and present - autobiographical memory and narrative identity: RichardWagner's creative vision at La Spezia - or the retrospective interpretationof experience in autobiographical memory as a function of an emergingidentity; identity and narrative in Piaget's autobiographies; from the end tothe beginning - retrospective teleology in autobiography. Concludingcommentary: from substance to theory - narrative, identity and thereconstruction of the self.