Anthrozoology and Anthropomorphic Poetic Expression

Anthrozoology and Anthropomorphic Poetic Expression

By Peggy Moran

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Talking about animals is always an act of appropriation. Expressed through another’s written ideas, thoughts, imaginings, biased observations, interpretations, and recordings, without awareness of their own status as a point of focus, the nonhuman animal is utterly subaltern, an object possessed and manipulated, where even natural behavior only occurs as permitted and portrayed by the author.

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