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Full of surprises and insights, Souvenir of Canada presents us as we have never seen ourselves before in an irresistible flow of text and image.
Douglas Coupland offers new ways of seeing and experiencing Canada-looking at how it feels to be a Canadian right now and speculating what it might feel like in the future. From collective memories, he locates objects like stubbie beer bottles and ookpiks, Kraft dinner and maple walnut ice cream. And with the same unique sensibility, he considers significant events and relevant issues, like the flq crisis, Canada's relationship with the United States, medicare and the landscape itself.
In the section humbly titled "Cheese," he "When you assemble them together, foods that feel intuitively Canadian look more like camping trip provisions than actual groceries...Canada is a cold and northern country...from a biological standpoint, it is imperative that Canadians stockpile concentrated forms of sugars, carbohydrates, fats and salt."
The 50 personal categories of the 30,000-word text are arranged alphabetically and matched with 100 illustrations (50 in colour)-new luscious photos taken by Coupland himself, images of Canadian ephemera and icons, historical photos and pictures from other quite startling sources. Included are photos of cultural installations created by Coupland himself.
Douglas Coupland offers new ways of seeing and experiencing Canada-looking at how it feels to be a Canadian right now and speculating what it might feel like in the future. From collective memories, he locates objects like stubbie beer bottles and ookpiks, Kraft dinner and maple walnut ice cream. And with the same unique sensibility, he considers significant events and relevant issues, like the flq crisis, Canada's relationship with the United States, medicare and the landscape itself.
In the section humbly titled "Cheese," he "When you assemble them together, foods that feel intuitively Canadian look more like camping trip provisions than actual groceries...Canada is a cold and northern country...from a biological standpoint, it is imperative that Canadians stockpile concentrated forms of sugars, carbohydrates, fats and salt."
The 50 personal categories of the 30,000-word text are arranged alphabetically and matched with 100 illustrations (50 in colour)-new luscious photos taken by Coupland himself, images of Canadian ephemera and icons, historical photos and pictures from other quite startling sources. Included are photos of cultural installations created by Coupland himself.
144 pages, Paperback
First published March 19,2004
This edition
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144 pages, Paperback
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March 19, 2004 by Douglas \u0026 McIntyre
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9781550549171
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1550549170
- Language
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English
About the author
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Douglas Coupland is Canadian, born on a Canadian Air Force base near Baden-Baden, Germany, on December 30, 1961. In 1965 his family moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he continues to live and work. Coupland has studied art and design in Vancouver, Canada, Milan, Italy and Sapporo, Japan. His first novel, Generation X, was published in March of 1991. Since then he has published nine novels and several non-fiction books in 35 languages and most countries on earth. He has written and performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, England, and in 2001 resumed his practice as a visual artist, with exhibitions in spaces in North America, Europe and Asia. 2006 marks the premiere of the feature film Everything's Gone Green, his first story written specifically for the screen and not adapted from any previous work. A TV series (13 one-hour episodes) based on his novel, jPod premieres on the CBC in January, 2008.
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Parts of this book were very reminiscent of times gone by, and others were highly educational about aspects of Canada I didn't (but probably should have) known.
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Ironic view of Canada by one of its most famous writers and artists. Because I live in that country, it is always interesting to read about some of its traditions and popular culture.
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Easily my favourite book by Douglas Coupland. Think Canada is just a weird country north of America? Read this and experience Coupland's Canada as he knows it. A travelogue for the soul of Canada.
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I think the beauty of this book lies in the sheer randomness of it. In one sense it's like a peek into a Canadian's home circa 1980 something. It's filled with some lovely colour photographs and pictures that really help to breath life into this alternative guide of sorts. I learned and uncovered a lot of obscure and memorable treasures here like the Ookpik (a cute and furry handicraft toy), it's OK to call Canadians Canucks, (they even have an Ice hockey team after it). Coupland also touches on many of the places throughout the second largest country in the world, like Newfoundland, Baffin Island and the Trans Canada Highway, amongst other Canadian cultural curiosities. This is by no means an attempt at a complete guide, more a left of centre appreciation for one man's idea of his country and the reasons why he loves it and it's this honesty and openness that makes it so easy to warm to and enjoy.
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fun, eclectic images of what it means to be Canadian
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It was interesting in parts, parts I agree with parts I think he is talking to a specific group that is not all canadians more a certain gereration and geographic demographic. West Coast, big city, and ten or twenty years older than me.
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Vancouverite Douglas Coupland examines the products, events, and landscapes that are wholly Canadian while exploring the Canadian psyche, especially in regard to the looming cultural and consumeristic behemoth of its closest international neighbo(u)r.
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