Well, I've written three novels and a chapbook of short essays and poetry that center on complex fat women, so I've definitely explored some of this stuff in my fiction. And I probably am going to be writing more short nonfiction pieces related to body size, politics, literature and all soon. I'll definitely post here as those pieces get published.
But one unexpected place that writing and thinking and talking hard about this stuff has taken me has been to the stories and theology of eighteenth century folks on the cusp between puritanism and revolutionary culture in New England. The intense things that these folks believed about the body, the natural world, god, emotion, depravity, light, family, life still seem to me to be powerful forces in so much US culture today -- so that's what I'm working with in fiction right now. It's almost overwhelming, like getting too close to an energy source that so many things draw power from -- something. It feels like a root place to me, another way to uncover how all of this stuff connects.
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Date: 2004-03-17 06:24 pm (UTC)Well, I've written three novels and a chapbook of short essays and poetry that center on complex fat women, so I've definitely explored some of this stuff in my fiction. And I probably am going to be writing more short nonfiction pieces related to body size, politics, literature and all soon. I'll definitely post here as those pieces get published.
But one unexpected place that writing and thinking and talking hard about this stuff has taken me has been to the stories and theology of eighteenth century folks on the cusp between puritanism and revolutionary culture in New England. The intense things that these folks believed about the body, the natural world, god, emotion, depravity, light, family, life still seem to me to be powerful forces in so much US culture today -- so that's what I'm working with in fiction right now. It's almost overwhelming, like getting too close to an energy source that so many things draw power from -- something. It feels like a root place to me, another way to uncover how all of this stuff connects.