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(2016) The educational significance of human and non-human animal interactions, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
When Doctor Dillamond, the goat-professor in Wicked, flips his chalkboard over, the students see the following phrase vandalized in aggressive, fiery letters: ANIMALS should be SEEN and NOT HEARD (Schwartz, 2003). The Land of Oz is in the midst of its own sea change with regard to how humans view and treat animals. As Wicked progresses, the Wizard and Madame Morrible succeed in taking away the power of speech from other animals, reducing Professor Dillamond's eloquence to a feeble and anguished baa-aaaa-aaaaa. The real wickedness in Oz is not, of course, Elphaba (the "Wicked" Witch of the West); rather, it is the pervasive and largely unchallenged movement to silence non-human animals.
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Moe, A. M. (2016)., The work of literature in a multispecies world, in S. Rice & A. G. Rud (eds.), The educational significance of human and non-human animal interactions, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 133-149.
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