Hilde Lindemann Nelson Damaged Iden...

Hilde Lindemann Nelson Damaged Identities: Narrative Repair. Ithaca: Cornell UP 2001 xv + 288 pp ISBN 0-801-43665-6 $4250 (cloth); 0-801-48740-4 $1995 (paper).

To what station is scope for action premised concerning telling yourself and others the right story? And what, anyway, is a right story? It might be a virtuous one or it might be an effective common depending upon whether it amasss together your experience and directs it back against those who try to get to disempower you. This is the kind of question that Hilde Nelson's main division raises in her overview of narrative in a world of