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. There is no sugar-coating in Hunger, but the. Despite being one of the most compelling and celebrated voices of our time, Gay must cope with the ways her body doesn’t fit in the modern world. She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties - including the devastating act of violence that was a turning point at age 12 - and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of. 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. In her explosive new memoir, Book of the Month guest judge Roxane Gay confronts with insight and with anger, the trials of being an overweight woman. Abstract: 'Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls 'wildly undisciplined.'. From there I have followed her book tours, writing engagements. I got to know her work through her 2015 publication, Bad Feminist.
She is a frequent commentator on pop culture and has become a driving force in creating a literary world enriched with inclusion. Roxane Gay’s Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body is a memoir of her own body, traumatic journey, and fatness. A life of 'hunger' Roxane Gay is not shy about her feelings, at least not in writing. 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.