Research Catalog

Title

Lizzo's Black, female, and fat resistance / Niya Pickett Miller, Gheni N. Platenburg.

Author

Miller, Niya Pickett, 1982-

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

Platenburg, Gheni N.

Description

vi, 72 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender.

Subject

• Lizzo, 1988-
• Body image in women > United States
• Self-esteem in women > United States
• Identity (Psychology)
• Stigma (Social psychology)
• Obesity in women > Social aspects > United States
• African American women > Social conditions
• African Americans in mass media
• Women in mass media
• Obesity in mass media
• African American women singers
• Women rap musicians > United States
• Body image > Social aspects
• Mass media > Social aspects
• Rap musicians
• Social media and society
• Women rap musicians
• Women singers
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-70) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Fat Black female flaunting -- So what, it's Lizzo?

Call Number

Sc D 22-154

ISBN

• 9783030737610
• 3030737616

OCLC

1255881652

Author

Miller, Niya Pickett, 1982- author.

Title

Lizzo's Black, female, and fat resistance / Niya Pickett Miller, Gheni N. Platenburg.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender

Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-70) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: SAMFORD UNIVERSITY.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Platenburg, Gheni N., author.

Research Call Number

Sc D 22-154