They interpret the leopard not as a species of feline, with its own attendant metaphorical implications, but rather as a stand-in for an animalized woman or Orient. |
The reader is compelled to include the Devil himself who conventionally appears with animalized features such as horns. |
Want to know why the parents in The Grandmother speak in animalized yelps? |
These Othered humans were, in turn, animalized such that the construction of race contained within it assumptions about animals and species difference. |