• Chandana A
• Dr. Sheeba .C

Body shaming continues to be a significant issue in today's society, which involves humiliation and discrimination based on a person's body type. The patriarchal ideas of beauty over brains forced female characters to conform to the social expectations of beauty. Traditionally, fat female characters served as comic relief and sidekicks. Modern novels, however, have begun to criticize these conventional Fatphobic attitudes. This study aims to identify how contemporary literature reacts to the social construction of the ideal body image. Julie Murphy's Dumplin' (2015) and Roxane Gay's Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (2017) are the two texts examined in this paper to examine how these texts disrupt the narratives of fatness rooted in shame to challenge the conventional social expectations of beauty.

Body shaming, Fatphobia, Feminism, Trauma, Dumplin’, Julie Murphy, Hunger, Roxane Gay

"DECONSTRUCTING THE IDEAL BODY IN THE SELECTED FICTIONS ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no.g222-g225, May-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305632.pdf

"DECONSTRUCTING THE IDEAL BODY IN THE SELECTED FICTIONS ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no. ppg222-g225, May-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305632.pdf