Gay has described Hunger as being 'by far the hardest book I've ever had to write.' 1 The parentheses that encompass the word 'my' in the title signifies the physical barrier of weight-gain. Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and tells a story that hasn't yet been told but needs to be. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body is a 2017 memoir by Roxane Gay, published on June 13, 2017, by HarperCollins in New York, New York. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. In Hunger, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties-including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life-and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image. As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care.
Louis Post-Dispatch PopSugar BookRiot Library Journal Booklist Kirkus Reviews Shelf Awareness New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. This research, discussing Gay's attitude to popular culture messages regarding fatness, willshow how Gay, through this memoir, protests against fat-shaming messages and how she becomes the voice of every fat person.New York Times bestsellerNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistLambda Literary Award winnerA best book of 2017: Time NPR People Elle The Washington Post The Los Angeles Times The Chicago Tribune Newsday St.
This article, under the umbrella of Fat Studies, will discuss how Gay, because of her fatness, has been treated as other and marginalized in popular culture and how she presents herself as a proponent of Fat Studies. This study will present this memoir as a manifestation of the prevailing negative representations of fat people in popular culture and how Gay, before and after being fat, responds to those fat-shaming messages produced by popular culture. This article looks through this memoir to find out Roxane Gay’s attitude towards these messages in showing how people accept, react, and subvert these messages. Roxane Gay’s Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body is a memoir of her own body, traumatic journey, and fatness. There is much scholarly research about the impact of popular culture messages regarding fatness on people, but there is limited study on people’s attitudes to those fat-shaming messages.
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