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What is a child's body worth when it is big, Black and female - when it is under constant demand to be something other than what it naturally is? In Mecca Jamilah Sullivan's achingly beautiful coming-of-age debut novel, "Big Girl," this body carries the weight of an entire neighborhood.When the book opens in the late 1980s, Malaya is an 8-year-old girl living with her parents in Harlem, burdened with a figure others consider ugly and a home life riddled with tension. Her mother, Nyela, tries and often fails to control her own Black body - for the sake of a notion of respectability and desirability that's been passed down from her mother and grandmother - and she drags Malaya to Weight Watchers meetings that only make Malaya hungrier. Meanwhile Malaya's father, Percy, dotes on her and resists Nyela's injunctions to stop feeding her.Sullivan portrays Percy tenderly, as though his entire being is rooted in the resentment of hunger of any kind. Having survived an impoverished childhood in the Harlem projects, where he experienced involuntary starvation firsthand, he has moved Nyela and Malaya into a crumbling brownstone in his home neighborhood, which appears to be poised for change. Treasuring the full-bodied women in his family as evidence of how far he has come from his youth, Percy blinds himself to the health risks of Malaya's overindulgence. As his love causes Malaya harm - a doctor says she is "morbidly obese" - the household begins to crumble like the walls and community around them.

Afro-Américains. --- African Americans --- Fiction --- New York (N.Y.) --- Quartier de Harlem --- Fiction.

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Himes, Chester B., --- Himes, Chester --- Criticism and interpretation --- Himes, Chester (1909-1984) --- Roman policier américain --- New York (N.Y.) --- Critique et interprétation --- Histoire et critique --- Quartier de Harlem --- Dans la littérature

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Critical Insights: Harlem Renaissance presents the period of unparallel growth in art and literature from the African American Community, also known as the Harlem Renaissance. With its production of key authors, from Langston Hughes to Claude McKay, among others, the Harlem Renaissance saw the rise in creative endeavors by black artists and writers eager to celebrate the unique characteristics of black life and to challenge the institutionalized racial hierarchy pervasive within twentieth-century American society. These creative thinkers, certainly intellectuals in their own right, used their poetry, short stories, novels, and plays as a vehicle to critique the longstanding issues within society that limited socioeconomic mobility for blacks, while perpetuating startling stereotypes about a community too long oppressed. Because of its undeniable impact in shaping the American cultural imagination regarding blacks and on the larger American literary canon, the Harlem Renaissance has since been heavily studied as the most significant period of artistic as well as cultural development the African American community has ever experienced.

American literature --- African American authors --- Harlem Renaissance. --- Littérature américaine --- Harlem Renaissance. --- Vie intellectuelle --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Histoire et critique. --- Quartier de Harlem --- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) --- Intellectual life

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American literature --- American literature --- American literature --- African Americans --- Modernism (Literature) --- African Americans in literature. --- Harlem Renaissance. --- Noirs --- Littérature américaine --- New York (N.Y.) --- New York (N.Y.) --- Littérature américaine --- Littérature américaine --- Noirs américains --- Modernisme (littérature) --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- États-Unis --- New York (N.Y.) --- Quartier de Harlem --- Dans la littérature --- 20e siècle --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Dans la littérature --- États-Unis --- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) --- New York (N.Y.) --- In literature. --- In literature. --- Noirs --- Littérature américaine --- New York (N.Y.) --- New York (N.Y.) --- Littérature américaine --- Littérature américaine --- Noirs américains --- Modernisme (littérature) --- États-Unis --- New York (N.Y.) --- Vie intellectuelle --- New York (N.Y.) --- Histoire et critique --- Quartier de Harlem --- Vie intellectuelle --- 20e siècle --- Dans la littérature --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature --- États-Unis

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American literature --- African American arts --- African Americans --- Harlem Renaissance. --- Black people --- Black nationalism. --- Garvey, Marcus Moziah (1887-1940) --- Littérature américaine --- Harlem Renaissance --- Nationalisme noir --- New York (N.Y.) --- African American authors. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Race identity. --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Quartier de Harlem --- Garvey, Marcus, --- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- 20e siècle --- Littérature américaine --- Auteurs noirs américains --- 20e siècle