Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, cilt.4, sa.1, ss.40-52, 2014 (Scopus)
This article analyses Chuck Palahniuk’s Survivor as an example of transgressive fiction, with a
special emphasis on the author’s style and method of rewriting and violating the conventions of
the disaster narrative. As a transgressive novel, Survivor not only mirrors and comments on the
social change of its time, but also betrays a specific literary subversion that moves it beyond the
postmodern by its dialogue with American literary minimalism as well as popular culture. The
novel is a first-person narration of Tender Branson, who is a suicide cult survivor, a servant, a
pro-suicide advisor, a religious media celebrity, and a hijacker. Through the subversion of the
disaster genre, Survivor emphasizes the perpetuity of the crisis, and presents storytelling as the
final act of survival from the commodification of his life.