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Rule Number 1: Do Not Talk About Fight Club: Heterosexual Masculinity's Subordination of the Feminine and the Queer in Chuck Palahniuk's Fiction after Fight Club’s (1996) Publication / IMAN HAMDIA
Swansea University Author: IMAN HAMDIA
Abstract
This thesis examines through the concept of hegemonic masculinity how Palahniuk’s men control subordinate subjects (women, gay men, and queer people) in order to maintain a sense of power in the social sphere. Do behaviours of intragender violence and sex addictions as well as violent psychological...
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Swansea, Wales, UK
2024
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| Institution: | Swansea University |
| Degree level: | Master of Research |
| Degree name: | MA by Research |
| Supervisor: | Gamble, Sarah |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67882 |
| Abstract: |
This thesis examines through the concept of hegemonic masculinity how Palahniuk’s men control subordinate subjects (women, gay men, and queer people) in order to maintain a sense of power in the social sphere. Do behaviours of intragender violence and sex addictions as well as violent psychological and physical acts between men in Palahniuk’s world strengthen the power dynamic in society? Or does this constant reliance on the attack of women, gay men and queer people merely highlight a collective weakness amongst Palahniuk’s heterosexual men? Chuck Palahniuk’s Invisible Monsters (1999), Choke (2001), Haunted (2005), Snuff (2008) and Pygmy (2009) will be used to assess how hegemonic masculine ideologies used in Fight Club are carried through into Palahniuk’s later texts. The aim of this thesis is to point out similarities in the desires of Palahniuk’s hegemonic men to establish control, as well as introducing queer people and the feminine as binaries vital to maintaining hegemonic masculinity. |
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Masculinity, Gender Studies, American Literature, Palahniuk, Femininity, Homosexuality, Queerness, Transgender Studies, iolence, Sexuality |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |