In her memoir Hunger (2017), Roxane Gay, a feminist writer and academic, claims that people are often very surprised to see that a fat person could be so successful. The corpus of corpulence that Gay has created gives voice to the precariousness of a fat body's materialization. Moreover, I propose that Gay’s writing style-hesitating and circling – involves an example of corpus-writing. In my analysis, I identify how the materiality of fat engenders the meaning of embodiment, and how it shapes how a fat body can and cannot be a body. To apply Nancy’s conceptual frame to a concrete manifestation of fat embodiment, I provide a reading of Roxane Gay’s memoir Hunger (2017). ![]() Additionally, Nancy’s idea of the body in terms of a “corpus”-a collection of pieces without a unity-together with his idea of corpus-writing-fragmentary writing, without head and tail-can help us to mobilize fixed meanings of fat. As such, it can help us to understand the lived experiences of fat embodiment. His philosophy, so I argue, offers a form of materialism that allows for a phenomenological exploration of the body. I introduce Nancy’s approach to the body as an addition to contemporary new materialism. ![]() This paper aims to mobilize the way we think and write about fat bodies while drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophy of the body.
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