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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Sep 2016
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      4. Marche's story belongs to a grand Canadian tradition, most famously Marian Engel's 1976 novel Bear.pic.twitter.com/TsAtRmMw4f

      14 replies 28 retweets 110 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Sep 2016
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      5. Engel's novel is about woman who has sex with a bear (note: not a large male homosexual but an actual ursine).

      3 replies 23 retweets 165 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Sep 2016
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      6. Engel won Canada's leading literary prize (Governor's General Award), as did Douglas Glover for Elle (where woman/bear sex is imagined).

      5 replies 16 retweets 49 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Sep 2016
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      7. Aside from bestiality, there's a surprisingly large body of Canadian fiction about sex with vegetables.

      17 replies 55 retweets 99 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Sep 2016
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      8. Cynthia Flood's Watching: "Once I took a real cucumber."

      2 replies 8 retweets 35 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Sep 2016
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      9. Lisa Moore's Granular: "You move the cucumber down the ridges of my neck...icy on my clitoris, numbing." I could go on, but won't.

      5 replies 13 retweets 62 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Sep 2016
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      10. Rather than go on with details, I want to ask: what is going on here? Why so much CanLit about unnatural animal & vegetable sex?

      16 replies 26 retweets 85 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Sep 2016
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      11. I think it all comes down to settler colonialism & national identity.

      8 replies 21 retweets 116 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Sep 2016
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      12. The United States might be defined by a proposition ("All men etc.") Canada is defined by a myth: wrestling with harshness of nature

      12 replies 31 retweets 145 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Sep 2016
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      13. In language of Northrop Frye & @MargaretAtwood, settler Canadian identity is surviving harshness nature in small garrisons.

      6 replies 8 retweets 68 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Sep 2016

      14. To wrestle with nature is also, in time, to feel that peace will come if you can achieve intimacy with nature.

      8:49 PM - 16 Sep 2016
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Sep 2016
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          15. This is also highly suggestive. I wonder if these human/animal stories aren't also race allegorieshttps://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/776986685724909568 …

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          Tressie McMillan CottomVerified account @tressiemcphd
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          @HeerJeet I actually have a fully articulated theory of revival of beastiality in fiction as race anxiety
          5 replies 12 retweets 82 likes
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        1. Graig McConnell‏ @gmcconnell1 16 Sep 2016
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          apparently Canadians are a very literal people

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        1. Vetarnias‏ @Vetarnias 16 Sep 2016
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          Remember, this is a country that elects its politicians based on their ability to look good canoeing in a fringed leather jacket.

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        2. Nissa Campbell‏ @NissaCam 16 Sep 2016
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          I love this theory, but with the prevalence of Canadian literature (and film!) about incest, I think we might just be twisted.

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        3. Douglas W. Hoyer‏ @DougHoyer 17 Sep 2016
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          yeah, that shit pops up all over in our literature. Especially barren prairie drudge stories.

          0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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