Annotation This text evolved out of a December 1995 conference at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna, attended by scholars f
The editors bring together an interdisciplinary and international group of creative researchers and theorists to examine the way the stories we tell create our
This volume presents both an analysis of how identities are built, represented and negotiated in narrative, as well as a theoretical reflection on the links bet
In the last two decades, interest in narrative conceptions of identity has grown exponentially, though there is little agreement about what a "life-narrative" m
Why is it that we tend to think about our lives as stories? Why do we strive to create coherent narratives that reflect a particular perspective? What happens w