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humanimalia-11190	Drew, John	Re-Animalizing Animal Farm: Challenging the “Anthropo-Allegorical” in Literary and Pedagogical Discourse and Practice	2022	39	.pdf	application/pdf	13438	688	42	The standard political allegorical interpretation of Animal Farm not only subordi- nates the allegorical vehicle (the animal story), but it also largely ne- gates it, thereby adhering to John Simons’s argument that animal fa- bles use animal representations “merely as vehicles for the human”.5 The vast majority of the scholarly analysis of the text adheres to such negation of animals, emphasizing almost exclusively Orwell’s use of historical and political allegory.6 Through this reductive allegorical hermeneutic, animals are discursively diminished in ways that reflect, as well as reproduce, their wider material debasement. Keywords: animals in literature; animals in education; Animal Farm; allegory; Anthropo-allegorical, George Orwell, Animal Farm Bio: John Drew is an assistant professor in the Department of English, French, and Writing at King’s University College at Western University on the traditional and treaty lands of the Anishnaabek, Haudenosaunee, Chonnonton, and Lūnaapéewak Peoples.	cache/humanimalia-11190.pdf	txt/humanimalia-11190.txt