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Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject American Studies - Literature grade: 17 University of Bayreuth language: English abstract: Reading Coupland's Generation A in the context of Turney's rDNA definition the administered brain samples which each of the protagonists consumes instigate a genetic experiment in recombinant DNA. Thus based on the method of narrative analysis the purpose of this paper is to reveal how those short narratives in Generation A visualize an rDNA experiment on a narrative level i.e. which parallels between narration and this specific kind of genetic engineering experiment can be found and how narration and especially storytelling itself can work as a metaphor for recombinant DNA and therefore genetic engineering.