Lizzo's Black, Female, and Fat Resistance

by Pickett Miller, Niya
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ISBN: 9783030737610
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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.
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Pickett Miller, Niya
  • ISBN: 9783030737610
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.27 x 0.25
  • Number Of Pages: 72
  • Publication Year: 2021
Language: English

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