Seeking Creatural Diversity
A review of Polymorphous Domesticities: Pets, Bodies, and Desire in Four Modern Writers, by Juliana Schiesari (University of California Press, 2012) By Walter Cummins My friend, the poet Renée Ashley, a consummate dog lover, displays a sticker on the back of her car with a canine paw print and the words, “Who Saved Who?” It should be “Whom,” but no matter. The message might have served as an epigram for Juliana Schiesari’s study, which challenges the hierarchical assumptions of […]
Categories: Review • Tags: animals, cats, Colette, D.H. Lawrence, dogs, Hemingway, Juliana Schiesari