Douglas Coupland
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2007.
- 1 online resource (201 pages)
- Contemporary American & Canadian Writers .
Includes bibliographies and index.
List of abbreviations; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Coupland's contexts; 2 'Denarration' or getting a life: Coupland and narrative; 3 'I am not a target market': Coupland, consumption and junk culture; 4 Nowhere, anywhere, somewhere: Coupland and space; 5 'You are the first generation raised without religion': Coupland and postmodern spirituality; 6 Conclusion: JPod and Coupland in the future; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.
This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland, one of the twenty-first century?s most innovative and influential novelists. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Coupland?s career, from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) to JPod (2006), a period in which he published ten novels and four significant volumes of non-fiction. Emerging in the last decade of the twentieth century - amidst the absurd contradictions of instantaneous global communication and acute poverty - Coupland?s novels, short stories, essays and visual art have intervened inches.