Lesbian self-writing
Subtitle: the embodiment of experience
By: Lynda Hall, editor.
Contributors: Hall, Lynda.
Publisher: Harrington Park Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Lesbians' writings, American -- History and criticism.; Women authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism.; Women authors, Canadian -- Biography -- History and criticism.; Homosexuality and literature -- English-speaking countries.; Lesbians' writings, Canadian -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.; Lesbians -- Biography -- History and criticism.; Autobiography -- Women authors.; Lesbians in literature.; North America -- Intellectual life.
Other titles: Journal of lesbian studies.
Description: ""What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?" asked the poet Muriel Rukeyser. "The whole world would split open." The women represented in Lesbian Self-Writing: The Embodiment of Experience tell the truth about their lives, using many forms and levels of discourse. They split the world open with their powerful words and ideas about being a woman, a lesbian, a writer, a person of color, a child, a mother. These identities come vigorously alive in these pages, offering the reader new models of humanity. The contributors celebrate the writerly "act" of creating a sense of self through finding one's own voice and creating community for others. Through political and literary analysis, they also provide ideas toward building a queer aesthetic." "Lesbian Self-Writing brings together works that focus on the elusive place where memory, language, body, experience, and deliberations on the practice and process of writing converge. By turns hilarious, moving, and painful, this anthology stands with the very best of writing about writing."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Co-published simultaneously as Journal of lesbian studies, v. 4, no. 4, 2000.