YoungGiftedandFat (Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives)

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YoungGiftedandFat is a very important 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 method to problems with 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 in regards to 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 very important praxis to evidence fat as a feminist issue, fat as a Black-girl-woman issue, and fat as an ideological construct that may be as much on the brain as it’s on the body. YoungGiftedandFat turns out to be useful to any area of study or course offering taking up questions of size politics on the intersections of race and sexuality.


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