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Lesbian Self-Writing: The Embodiment of Experience  
Author: Lynda Hall (Editor)
ISBN: 1560231440
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
   Book Review
Lesbian Self-Writing: The Embodiment of Experience

FROM THE PUBLISHER

""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.

FROM THE CRITICS

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Established lesbian writers offer 18 essays, interviews, and other pieces describing their experiences as women, lesbians, writers, people of color, children, and mothers. They celebrate the act of creating a sense of self through finding their own voice, and employ political and literary analysis to provide ideas toward building a queer aesthetic. Three of the essays have been previously published. The anthology is also published as the , v.4, no.4 (2000). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Probes the intersection of love for words and love for women￯﾿ᄑLuminous, erotic, evocative. — Beverly Burch

     



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