Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE YoungGiftedandFat by Sharrell D. Luckett Young, Gifted and Fat is an autoethnography of performing thin – on the stage and in life. Sharrell Lucketts 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description YoungGiftedandFat is a critical autoethnography of "performing thin"– on the stage and in life. Sharrell D. Lucketts 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. Author Biography Sharrell D. Luckett is Assistant Professor of Theatre & Performance Studies at Muhlenberg College. Her literary and embodied research is situated in Performance Studies, African American Studies, acting/directing theory, and Fat Studies. Table of Contents Foreword Bryant Keith AlexanderAcknowledgementsBefore PicIntroduction: Contextualizing the ConundrumChapter 1. Touched Talk Fat Session: Say it aint so…daddy issues?Chapter 2. Disappearing ActsChapter 3. Passing Strange Talk Fat Session: FracturedChapter 4. MaintenanceChapter 5. Weighted Loss Talk Fat Session: Staging LifeChapter 6. "YoungGiftedandFat" – (The Play)Chapter 7. Fat Girl FuturityAfter PicReferencesIndex Review YoungGiftedandFat is the best account of the intersection between body size, race, and gender available to the critical reader.Sander L. Gilman, Author of Fat Boys and Fat: A Cultural History of ObesityHilarious and tragic, YoungGiftedandFat is as surprising and unexpected in its emotional candor, as it is familiar in its stories of coming-of-age fat in millennial America. Luckett reveals how "fatness" in US society disrupts notions of value and distorts experiences of childhood, adolescence, womanhood, selfhood, femininity, sex, and sexuality.Stephanie L. Batiste, Associate Professor of English and Black Studies, University of California at Santa BarbaraSharrell D. Luckett serves up a book worthy of the "thick peculiarities" its expansive title promises. Weighty in its theoretical complexity, the writing is refreshingly clear and compelling – the hallmark of a masterful storyteller.Sara Warner, Associate Professor, Department of Performing & Media Arts, Cornell UniversityYoungGiftedandFat, the book and the performance, belongs in the center of our dialogues on autoethnographic and autobiographical performance because it is not only risky, it also relentlessly challenges traditional views of race, class, gender, power, sexuality, and fat.M. Heather Carver, Professor and Chair of Theatre, University of Missouri-Columbia Review Quote YoungGiftedandFatis the best account of the intersection between body size, race, and gender available to the critical reader. Sander L. Gilman, Author of Fat Boys and Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity Hilarious and tragic, YoungGiftedandFatis as surprising and unexpected in its emotional candor, as it is familiar in its stories of coming-of-age fat in millennial America. Luckett reveals how "fatness" in US society disrupts notions of value and distorts experiences of childhood, adolescence, womanhood, selfhood, femininity, sex, and sexuality. Stephanie L. Batiste, Associate Professor of English and Black Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara Sharrell D. Luckett serves up a book worthy of the "thick peculiarities" its expansive title promises. Weighty in its theoretical complexity, the writing is refreshingly clear and compelling - the hallmark of a masterful storyteller. Sara Warner, Associate Professor, Department of Performing & Media Arts, Cornell University YoungGiftedandFat, the book and the performance, belongs in the center of our dialogues on autoethnographic and autobiographical performance because it is not only risky, it also relentlessly challenges traditional views of race, class, gender, power, sexuality, and fat. M. Heather Carver, Professor and Chair of Theatre, University of Missouri-Columbia ges traditional views of race, class, gender, power, sexuality, and fat. M. Heather Carver, Professor and Chair of Theatre, University of Missouri-Columbia Details ISBN1138998826 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives ISBN-10 1138998826 ISBN-13 9781138998827 Format Hardcover Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Year 2017 DEWEY 306.4613 Pages 172 Subtitle An Autoethnography of Size, Sexuality, and Privilege Short Title YoungGiftedandFat Language English Illustrations 7 Halftones, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white Publication Date 2017-11-23 AU Release Date 2017-11-23 NZ Release Date 2017-11-23 UK Release Date 2017-11-23 Author Sharrell D. Luckett Alternative 9781138038325 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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ISBN-13: 9781138998827
Book Title: YoungGiftedandFat
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
Author: Sharrell D. Luckett
Publication Name: Younggiftedandfat: an Autoethnography of Size, Sexuality, and Privilege
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD
Subject: Zoology, Anthropology
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 476 g
Number of Pages: 172 Pages
