Full Description
YoungGiftedandFat is a critical autoethnography of "performing thin"- on the stage and in life. Sharrell D. Luckett's story of weight loss and gain and playing the (beautiful, desirable, thin) leading lady showcases an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to issues of weight and self-esteem, performance, race, and gender. Sharrell structures her project with creative text, interviews, testimony, journal entries, dialogues, monologues, and deep theorizing through and about the abundance of flesh.
She explores the politics of Black culture, and particularly the intersections of her lived and embodied experiences. Her body and body transformation becomes a critical praxis to evidence fat as a feminist issue, fat as a Black-girl-woman issue, and fat as an ideological construct that is as much on the brain as it is on the body. YoungGiftedandFat is useful to any area of research or course offering taking up questions of size politics at the intersections of race and sexuality.
Contents
Foreword Bryant Keith Alexander
Acknowledgements
Before Pic
Introduction: Contextualizing the Conundrum
Chapter 1. Touched
Talk 'Fat' Session: Say it ain't so...daddy issues?
Chapter 2. Disappearing Acts
Chapter 3. Passing Strange
Talk 'Fat' Session: Fractured
Chapter 4. Maintenance
Chapter 5. Weighted Loss
Talk 'Fat' Session: Staging Life
Chapter 6. "YoungGiftedandFat" - (The Play)
Chapter 7. Fat Girl Futurity
After Pic
References
Index
