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Lizzo's Black, Female, and Fat Resistance

Lizzo's Black, Female, and Fat Resistance

Pickett Miller, Niya
Platenburg, Gheni N.

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender

CriminologyGeneral SociologyPop/Rock

ISBN10: 3030737616
ISBN13: 9783030737610
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Apr 30 2021
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Celebrated musician and entertainer Lizzo wowed audiences and left many feeling good as hell. Notwithstanding her collective--fat, Black female-- identity she catapulted into mainstream success while redefining the social script for body size, race, and gender. This book explores a tale of two narratives: Lizzo's self-curated, fat-positive identity and the media's reaction to an unabashedly proud fat, Black woman. This critical analysis examines how Lizzo challenges fatphobia and reconstitutes fat stigmatization into self-empowerment through her strategic use of hyper-embodiment via social media, and the rhetorical distinctions between Lizzo's self-curated narrative via social media and those offered about her in print media. In part, Lizzo's bodily flaunting is argued as a significant rhetorical act that emancipates her identity of fatness and reframes the negative tropes of (fat) Black women typically curated in American culture.

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