SOURCE: “Displacing Darwin and Descartes: The Bodily Transgressions of Fielding Burke, Octavia Butler, and Linda Hogan,” in Isle: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer, 1996, pp. 55-64.
In the following excerpt, Alaimo studies Hogan's handling of nature in her poems. Instead of humanizing nature and animals, the critic contends, Hogan gives them their own identity, an identity that doesn't always conform to common expectations of characterization.
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