Abstract
Everyone, as Erving Goffman remarks, has their own identity, biography and memories that accumulate as we journey through life. As we do so, each of us will lay claim to a multitude of capacities and functions. It is these capacities, professional, domestic and other, and which we express centre stage or in the wings, that Erving Goffman (1974: 136) calls our individual “role”. The contributions presented here explore the textual roots of these ideas of role and identity, but they do so from ...
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