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?
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11. I think it all comes down to settler colonialism & national identity.
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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
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13. In language of Northrop Frye &
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14. To wrestle with nature is also, in time, to feel that peace will come if you can achieve intimacy with nature.
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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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16. Should add that much of official Canadian culture is based on promoting idea of identity rooted in nature. Magazine is called The Walrus
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17. Another magazine, devoted Canadian history, was called The Beaver. Had to change name because people thought it was a porn publication.
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18. By the way, in the replies people mention other Canadian bestiality fiction by Gowdy & Finley. Someone should compile a list.
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what about Quebec literature, any instances of animal fucking or is it purely a royalist fantasy?
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There is an interesting Julie Doucet comic strip about having sex with a beer bottle. Might be related.
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beer bear, Quebec was never that good at English orthograph
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I feel like The Edible Woman might be a slantwise take on this
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