The Body in Space / Trauma in the Body: A Review of Roxane Gay's "Hunger" [Public Seminar]

Hunger is a meditation on health, on the fear of death, on gender and space, on Blackness and visibility. Roxane Gay lives at the center of these dueling forces as a fat, queer, Black woman, and as a writer and academic whose relentless excavation of these identities persists even when the digging causes her pain. Reviewed in Public Seminar.