Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction. Rethinking narrative identity 1
4. Chapter 1. Identity and empathy 33
5. Chapter 2. Axes of identity 49
6. Chapter 3. The quest for a third space 69
7. Chapter 4. Constructing perspectives as positioning resources in stories of the self 85
8. Chapter 5. Referential frameworks and focalization in a craft artist’s life story 103
9. Chapter 6. Strange perspectives = strange (narrative?) identities? 117
10. Chapter 7. “Indefinite, sketchy, but not entirely obliterated” 129
11. Chapter 8. Creative confession 147
12. Chapter 9. The queer self and the snares of heteronormativity 171
13. Chapter 10. Confessional poetry 187
14. Contributors 203
15. Index 207