4. Marche's story belongs to a grand Canadian tradition, most famously Marian Engel's 1976 novel Bear.pic.twitter.com/TsAtRmMw4f
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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
5. Engel's novel is about woman who has sex with a bear (note: not a large male homosexual but an actual ursine).
6. Engel won Canada's leading literary prize (Governor's General Award), as did Douglas Glover for Elle (where woman/bear sex is imagined).
7. Aside from bestiality, there's a surprisingly large body of Canadian fiction about sex with vegetables.
8. Cynthia Flood's Watching: "Once I took a real cucumber."
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.
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?
11. I think it all comes down to settler colonialism & national identity.
12. The United States might be defined by a proposition ("All men etc.") Canada is defined by a myth: wrestling with harshness of nature
Peace, order, good government and fucking bears.
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