| Description |
1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Series |
Writing lives, ethnographic narratives |
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Writing lives--ethnographic narratives.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Permissions -- Advance Praise -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Images -- Foreword / Bryant Keith Alexander -- Acknowledgments -- Before Pic -- Introduction: Contextualizing the Conundrum -- Discovering the Depth -- No Curves Allowed: Black Women Too -- Fat Studies Advocate -- Autoethnography and the Artist -- Framing the Investigation -- My Very Fat Treasure Chest -- A Guide Through This Messy Text; or a Mess of a Tale -- Notes -- Chapter 1. Touched: All You Can Eat -- Tatted Up -- Spotting Kyree -- Fatty Back -- The Boy Who Cried "Fat" -- Boy Trouble -- Fat Girl Roles/Rolls -- The Scoop -- Cherry Poppin' -- Unattractive -- Out of Nowhere -- I'll Cry if I Want To -- Thanks for Noticing Me -- Admirer -- Say It Ain't So...Daddy Issues?: Talk "Fat" Session -- Reader's Reflection #1 -- Chapter 2. Disappearing Acts: Spring of 2007, 1 1/2 Years Earlier -- June of 200 -- Day 1 of the Diet -- Have You Seen Her? -- Size 12 -- Uppercut -- Chapter 3. Passing Strange: In His Eyes -- Rigging the Costume -- Iron Fist -- Size 10 -- Staging Sex -- Interview with a Friend -- Teeny Tiny -- Fences Auditions -- The Ideal Size -- Bitches Are Beautiful -- Unspoken Expectations -- Fractured: Talk "Fat" Session -- Reader's Reflection #2 -- Notes -- Chapter 4. Maintenance: Secrets Are for the Sexy -- When You Know It's Real -- Going Up -- Almost Showtime -- Chivalry Is Alive and Well -- Dressing the Body -- Stability? -- Judgment-Free Eating -- Curtains up on Fences -- Too Pretty -- Mending Fences -- Chapter 5. Weighted Loss: 2012 -- 2013 -- Same Ole Song -- Staging Life: Talk "Fat" Session -- Why a Performance? -- Primary Pedagogical Imperatives: An Exemplar -- Reader's Reflection #3 -- Notes -- Chapter 6. "YoungGiftedandFat" (The Play) -- Scene 1 -- Scene 2 -- Scene 3 -- Scene 4 -- Scene 5 -- Scene 6 -- Scene 7 -- Scene 8 -- Notes -- Chapter 7. Fat Girl Futurity: Notes -- After Pic -- Index |
| Summary |
"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, 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."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Luckett, Sharrell D
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| SUBJECT |
Luckett, Sharrell D. fast |
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African American actors -- Biography
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College teachers -- United States -- Biography
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Overweight persons -- United States -- Biography
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Obesity -- Social aspects -- United States
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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African American actors
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College teachers
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Obesity -- Social aspects
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Overweight persons
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315177427 |
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1315177420 |
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