Description
| Product ID: | 9783030737641 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender |
| Title: | Lizzo’s Black, Female, and Fat Resistance |
| Authors: | Author: Gheni N. Platenburg, Niya Pickett Miller |
| Page Count: | 72 |
| Subjects: | Composers and songwriters, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, Popular culture, Media studies, Popular culture, Media studies |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Publisher Name: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-04-30 |
