Subculture Rising: the Transition from Subculture to Hegemony in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club
Subculture Rising: the Transition from Subculture to Hegemony in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club

Summary/Abstract: As a cultural phenomenon, subculture represents a reaction of a group of people to the dominant culture at a certain moment in history. It involves appropriating the resources from the dominant culture and transforming them so as to fit the need of the subculture that is evolving. However, once certain features of any given subculture are brought to extremes, it can be perceived as a basis for the development of hegemony. In this paper, a process of a subculture becoming hegemony is discussed on the example of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club in which a small all-male community rises to follow destructive orders of a lunatic dictator in development embodied in the protagonist’s alter ego Tyler Durden.

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