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What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology.(Book Review)

Publication: Journal of Popular Culture

Publication Date: 01-NOV-04

Author: Surface, Heather
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COPYRIGHT 2004 Blackwell Publishers Ltd.

What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology. Eds. Donna Jarrell and Ira Sukrungruang. New York: Harcourt, 2003.

Jarrell and Sukrungruang offer an eclectic anthology of thirty stories and poems that foregrounds fat bodies. This collection is particularly refreshing given the recent backlash against fat acceptance, which has resulted in the discontinuation of fat-centric magazines, the closing of plus-size clothing stores, and popular culture's continuing love affair with ever-smaller actors and models. Some readers looking for profat sentiments may be...

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