""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.