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1. Introduction

Authors : Niya Pickett Miller, Gheni N. Platenburg

Published in: Lizzo’s Black, Female, and Fat Resistance

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Lizzo’s Black, fat, and female flaunting is posited as a kind of visibility politics because her beingness expands the (typically negative) visual trope of large Black women in American popular culture. Pickett Miller and Platenburg question how Lizzo challenges fatphobia and reconstitutes her identity of fatness into self-empowerment through strategic use of Instagram. They also question if differences between the musician’s self-curated, fat-positive narrative and those offered about her in print media outlets exist. Their close-textual analysis intersects with studies of critical race theory, theory of self-presentation, agenda-setting theory, Black feminist thought, fat studies, media studies, and visual rhetoric. Such intersectional potential inserts Black, fat female flaunting into overlapping and disparate scholarly conversations.

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Title: Introduction
Authors: Niya Pickett Miller
Gheni N. Platenburg
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Lizzo’s Black, Female, and Fat Resistance
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-73761-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-73762-7

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73762-7_1