Douglas Coupland

Andrew Tate

doi:10.7765/9781847791924

This book is a full-length study of Douglas Coupland, one of the twenty-first century's most innovative and influential novelists. It explores the prolific first decade-and-a-half of his 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 in specifically contemporary debates regarding authenticity, artifice, and art. This book explores Coupland's response, in ground-breaking novels such as Microserfs, Girlfriend in a Coma and Miss Wyoming, to some of the most pressing issues of our times.

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Front matter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

List of abbreviations
pp viii-viii

Series editors' foreword
pp ix-x

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xii

1 - Introduction: Coupland's contexts
pp 1-37

2 - 'Denarration' or getting a life: Coupland and narrative
pp 38-72

3 - 'I am not a target market': Coupland, consumption and junk culture
pp 73-106

4 - Nowhere, anywhere, somewhere: Coupland and space
pp 107-129

5 - 'You are the first generation raised without religion': Coupland and postmodern spirituality
pp 130-161

6 - Conclusion: <italic>Jpod</italic> and Coupland in the future
pp 162-173

Bibliography
pp 174-182

Index
pp 183-188

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