Take Lemons and Make Lemonade: Serial Girls and the Question of Race
This paper addresses the question of race in relation to the image of serial girls. I reflect on how seriality affects women of colour and how it operates by imposing an ideal white female body and an ideal image of femininity. I am also interested in the way seriality is used by artists of colour,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
2018-07-01
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| Series: | Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory |
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| Online Access: | http://www.metacriticjournal.com/article/95/take-lemons-and-make-lemonade-serial-girls-and-the-question-of-race |
| Summary: | This paper addresses the question of race in relation to the image of serial girls. I reflect on how seriality affects women of colour and how it operates by imposing an ideal white female body and an ideal image of femininity. I am also interested in the way seriality is used by artists of colour, as a means for resistance against white cultural supremacy and (white) misogyny. Beyoncé is one example of how seriality can be reproduced in order to resist. Some relevant proof I analyse in this paper are the 2016 Superbowl performance and the film-album Lemonade. In this context, the image of serial girls appears both as a symptom of racism and as a possibility of anti-racist engagement. |
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| ISSN: | 2457-8827 |