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Did you know... that Marian Engel's 1976 novel Bear has been called "the most controversial novel ever written in Canada"?

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removal of category[edit]

I didn't add the article to Category:Obscenity controversies in literature because I hadn't come across that category, but I don't understand why it was removed. The article demonstrates that the book is considered one of the most controversial in Canadian literary history. And it's about (among other things) a woman having sex with a bear. The controversy isn't about.... corrupt politicians or the banking crisis or residential schools or climate change. It's about sex, and what is permissible in literature ("art") versus pornography ("smut"). Carbon Caryatid (talk) 11:22, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Unreliable source tag[edit]

@Just kei:, could you clarify the tag you added in this edit? Right now, the tag implies that New/ELC is unreliable. Is this the case? Or is it more an issue with how the source material is represented? Thanks, The Interior (Talk) 15:35, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New article in The Guardian[edit]

There's a new article about the novel in The Guardian today, marking the fact that a new issue of the book has been released: Animal attraction: Bear, the controversial story of one woman’s sexual awakening JezGrove (talk) 12:17, 9 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]