slashgirl writes “”Back in the 1990s, Vancouver’s Arsenal Pulp Press put out an anthology called Carnal Nation: Brave New Sex Fictions. The goal of the editors was to prove that Canadian literature isn’t all “safe and polite,â€? and that a new generation of homegrown writers was unabashedly embracing sex in fiction.
The anthology did succeed in displaying a modern attitude toward sex in its tales of lust by the light of CNN. But in doing so, it reaffirmed the long-standing observation that our national literature is entirely devoid of erotic sensibilities. In the tales of Carnal Nation – as in the narratives of most CanLit – sex is rarely a pleasurable event. Instead, it is often used as a metaphor for politics, identity, globalization, consumerism – almost everything but sex itself.
Article includes a list of the 10 most memorable scenes in Canadian lit. Very interesting.”
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