First thoughts: The Guardians review said that this was an 'extraordinary' memoir, and it is. Pedagogical scholars may be able to find use in one of the arguments I make in this thesis: that memoir is a useful teaching tool because it is both hyper-personal and universal. Book 2 Hunger, by Roxane Gay (published 2017). Following critical acclaim for her bestselling works, including Bad Feminist, Difficult Women and Hunger, Gay is turning the spotlight on powerful new literary. Literary scholars may be able to use the findings of this thesis to further interrogate the troubling systems America has created an upheld for women who are both fat and Black by analyzing other memoirs for their language and structure in addition to their content. I ague that Gay’s memoir is a subversion of the typical weight-loss memoir and is instead a social commentary on the ways trauma lives and manifests in the body, as well as the way American society dictates what trauma is and how Black women, specifically, should handle it. Hunger by Roxane Gay Author:Roxane Gay, Date: J,Views: 3501 Author:Roxane Gay Language: eng Format: epub Publisher: HarperCollins Published: T16:00:00+00:00 44. Also, this these works to highlight the usefulness of the memoir genre as teaching tool in classrooms with students of all ages. Therefore, she should not be something that other people can choose to do with as they want. She has no control over it - she had no control over it as she was raped by several people when she was twelve. She shares her tragedy, her struggles, her coping mechanisms, her humiliations, her secrets, her deepest longings. Roxane doesnt wish to think of her body as a part of her, because it is so heavily affected by the people around her and their actions. What is often deemed the most intoxicating part of weight. Among other things, this thesis attempts to draw a connection between Deborah King’s concept of multiple jeopardy and the lived experiences of several different traumas. In Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Roxane Gay shares her story with tremendous honesty and bravery, and there’s no doubt that this is one of the most powerful memoirs I’ve ever read. In her moving new memoir, the writer explores desire, denial, and life in an unruly body. This thesis uses the language and structure of Roxane Gay’s Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, in tandem with other works of literature, to examine the relationship between Blackness, fatness, womanhood, and trauma.