Table of Contents

Series Editor's Introduction, Sarah Graham
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Chuck Palahniuk and the posthuman being, Francisco Collado-Rodríguez
Part I: Fight Club
1. Violence, Spaces, and a Fragmenting Consciousness in Fight Club, James R. Giles
2. The Avatars of Masculinity: How Not to Be a Man, Eduardo Mendieta
3. Body Contact : Acting Out is the Best Defense in Fight Club, Laurie Vickroy
Part II: Invisible Monsters
Introduction
4. Invisible Monsters and Palahniuk's Perverse Sublime, Andrew Slade
5. The opposite of a miracle: Trauma in Invisible Monsters, Richard Viskovic and Eluned Summers-Bremner
6. From Solid to Liquid: Invisible Monsters and the Blank Fiction Road Story, Sonia Baelo-Allué
Part III: Choke
Introduction
7. Chuck Palahniuk's Edible Complex, Jesse Kavadlo
8. Anger, Anguish, and Art: Choke, David Cowart
9. Addiction in Choke, Nieves Pascual
Works Cited
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index

Promotional Information

From trauma to postmodernism and gender theory, this guide surveys a full range of critical perspectives on three of Palahniuk's major novels, including Fight Club.

About the Author

Francisco Collado-Rodriguez is Professor of English at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He is a former President of the Spanish Association for American Studies and his previous publications include (as co-editor) Masculinities, Femininities and the Power of the Hybrid in US Narratives.