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Taste and Palatability in the Contemporary Memoir Lang, Arianna Varnado, Christine English English literature M.A. This thesis examines the role of embodiment in the contemporary memoir by highlighting two works produced within the last 25 years: Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy and Hunger by Roxane Gay. Primarily, it is concerned with marginalized representations of embodiment and their transformative potentiality: firstly, in their ability to incite and illuminate political action, and secondly, in their ability to appeal to both popular and academic readers. Using cultural studies and theories of pain, abjection, and the grotesque, I argue for each writer’s queering of bodily expectations; it is a cultural critique as much as it as an exercise in reparative reading. Finally, this thesis demands a re-evaluation of what writers are accepted into the literary canon. 2022-06-21T15:47:28Z 2022-06-21T15:47:28Z 2020 Text Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10477/84056 eng Users of works found in University at Buffalo Institutional Repository (UBIR) are responsible for identifying and contacting the copyright owner for permission to reuse. University at Buffalo Libraries do not manage rights for copyright-protected works and cannot assist with permissions. Copyright retained by author. application/pdf State University of New York at Buffalo