125801 20230914083816.0 doi 10.18172/jes.5538 sideral 133291 ART-2022-133291 eng Collado Rodríguez, Francisco Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-2922-9194 Echoes from "Fight Club": categorical thinking, narrative strategies, and political radicalism in Chuck Palahniuk's "Adjustment Day" 2022 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This work addresses Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Adjustment Day as a satirical critique of the political radicalization of the USA and as a warning about the dangerous ideological effects narratives may have on our posthumanist understanding of reality. To reach his purposes, the novelist combines three stylistic strategies. First, he creates a satirical story that exposes the condition of American politics, the dangers of radicalized political correctness, and the present risks of populist revolutions. Secondly, he uses explicit metafictional references to Fight Club and to other literary works and critical theories to warn about the dangerous effects that the power of narrative can have. Finally, Palahniuk departs from the minimalist style he used in his earlier and most well-known fiction in favor of a heterodiegetic and omniscience narrative voice that, combined with multiple internal focalizations, endorses a plural, non-categorical understanding of reality.   info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H03-17R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2019-106855GB-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 0.112 2022 Literature and Literary Theory 2022 Q2 Cultural Studies 2022 Q3 Linguistics and Language 2022 Q3 0.4 2022 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 20 (2022), 3-23 J. engl. stud. (Logroño) Journal of English Studies 1576-6357 232536 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/125801/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1056495 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/125801/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:125801 articulos driver 2023-09-13-15:32:16 ARTICLE