Andrea Elizabeth Shaw

The Embodiment of Disobedience (eBook, PDF)

Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Despite the West's privileging of slenderness as an aesthetic ideal, the African Diaspora has historically displayed a resistance to the Western European and North American indulgence in 'fat anxiety.' The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the West's efforts to impose imperatives of slenderness and mass market fat-anxiety. Author Andrea Shaw explores the origins and contradictions of this phenomenon, especially the cultural deviations in beauty criteria and the related social and cultural practices. Unique in its examination of how both fatness and blackness interact on literary cultural planes, this book also offers a diasporic scope that develops previously unexamined connections among female representations throughout the African Diaspora.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765183830
• Artikelnr.: 74841766

Autorenporträt

Andrea Elizabeth Shaw is Assistant Director of the Division of Humanities and Assistant Professor of English at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Fatness and Blackness: A Compelling Coincidence of
Erasure Chapter 2 Reshaping Identity Chapter 3 The Anatomy of Sexual
Unruliness Chapter 4 Bodily Abundance Chapter 5 Spectacles of Size: The
Performing Bodies of Fat Black Women Chapter 6 Consumption and Control: The
"Epidemic" of Fatness