Then I argue for a new, hybridized reading - and teaching - that moves beyond the anthropocentric and toward a more-than-human interpretive and pedagogical orientation that speaks to the oppressions and challenges confronting multiple species, including, but not confined, to our own. Golden ridge Animal Farm is farm for everyone to enjoy a day out and feed, pat, hold baby animals, milk a cow, Feed farm animals. I employ Derridean deconstruction to critique the humanist and educational legacies that inform the largely homogenized and de-animalized interpretation and pedagogical applications of Animal Farm. Given Animal Farm’s iconic and enduring status in English classrooms, I unpack this process, particularly how it is informed and perpetuated by the persistence of human exceptionalism rooted in the humanist literary tradition, and hegemonic approaches to education. Interpretations of George Orwell’s Animal Farm have been almost exclusively focused on anthropocentric allegory in the text and what I call the anthropo-allegorical interpretive frame. Moon was taken from a field at Millers Ark in Hook on Monday (15/05). King's University College at Western UniversityĪnimals and literature, animals and education, the anthropo-allegorical, pedagogy, animals in fiction, Orwell, Animal Farm, literary animal studies Abstract The owner of a two-month old foal, who was snatched from a farm in Hampshire, has appealed for help to find her.
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