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. Smart and fierce when it comes to issues of race and gender, Bad Feminist author Roxane Gay is back with another hit.
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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. 7 powerful quotes from Roxane Gay’s ‘Hunger’ A book that confronts how we judge bodies. Hunger Roxane Gay Hunger HarperCollins, 2017 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 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. From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed. At 13, just one year after the assault, Gay goes away to private school (Phillips Exeter Academy), where she indulges in her love of books and discovers an affinity for theater but struggles with. 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.