Navigating the Spectrum: Identity and Resilience in the 'Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body'

This paper explores the interplay between identity and resilience through the personal narrative of Roxane Gay, it analyzes the trauma behind the domestic violence she faced in her childhood and enhances the remarkable resilience journey. This paper also attempts to identify the complexities by experiencing internalized shame and self-hatred, grappling with societal expectations, and sexual assault. The central theme of this article is to assess the lasting impact on her identity and sense of self. It also acknowledges the pain, embracing the imperfection of being a woman in the politicized and stigmatized society. This frame explains the evolving relationship with her inner - self by embracing her survival and also emphasizing that resilience is not a progressive path but a perpetual process of attaining self-acceptance and self-reclamation. By employing Barbara Fredrickson and Tomi-Ann Roberts, objectification theory to analyze the concept of women being objectified in personal and social life. This paper draws the significance of how women are being judged, endorsed, and exploited in the aspects of physical and mental state and also with a feminist approach to conceptualize the relationship between many oppressive systems that create different identities in hierarchies of privilege and power through the effects of gender-based violence.

Keywords: Identity, Resilience, Trauma, Gender-Based Violence and Feminism