TY - BOOK AU - Tate,Andrew TI - Douglas Coupland T2 - Contemporary American & Canadian Writers SN - 9781847791924 AV - PS3553 .D684 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - Coupland, Douglas KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=515062&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -