In 2019 Barbie turns 60. Never only a toy, she defines the stellar. In Plastic's Republic, Giovanna Riccio delves into Barbie's impact on female beauty highlighting how plasticity in body and persona have allowed the doll to remain top-diva. Other poems bring to life, Mattel's movers-n-shakers who created Barbie to be their in-house money maker. Riccio's Plastications lyrics illustrate how Barbie's mouldable nature lets Mattel position their high achiever as ever-relevant, arguably, by exploiting social trends, political movements and historical events. In the Human Barbies section, Barbie becomes plastic surgery's prophet, spawning "plastic-positive" people who see their bodies as raw material suitable for actual and virtual surgical "doctoring." Riccio's witty, inimitable poems portray Barbie as a complex, contradictory global celebrity, but also explore the philosophical, feminist and body-image issues that this plastic goddess engenders. In the finale, the poems naturally segue to silicone sex dolls and a plastic-smothered ocean.
| ISBN: | 9781771833684 |
| Publication date: | 1st April 2019 |
| Author: | Giovanna Riccio |
| Publisher: | Guernica Editions |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 117 pages |
| Series: | Essential Poets Series |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets Poetry |
In 2019 Barbie turns 60. Never only a toy, she defines the stellar.
Plastic's Republic features in the following genres: Literary studies: poetry and poets, Poetry
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Plastic's Republic was written by Giovanna Riccio and published by Guernica Editions
Plastic's Republic has 117 pages
Yes it is part of Essential Poets Series series