Roots Of The Swamp Thing: Dean Blumberg's "It's Not Easy Being Green, Part Two"

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Dean Blumberg's "It's Not Easy Being Green, Part Two" Now Online by Rich Handley *June 10, 2010* Dean Blumberg, author of PopMatters' "The Iconographies" column, has posted the second part in a fascinating series of articles dissecting Alan Moore's amazing use of language during the Swamp Thing run, and exploring Alac Holland's reconceptualization of self. Here's an excerpt: Letting go of a humanity based upon human/nonhuman opposition with his symbolic burial of Alec Holland, Swamp Thing has embraced a new identity built upon an expanded consciousness with a network of living and nonliving things. His final line to Abby, “I am…The Swamp Thing” is significant because while he is now able to perceive himself not as a separate being apart from humanity, but as a dynamic being in a process system of which humanity is a part, he is still limited by the anthropocentric terms that position human and nonhuman in polemical configurations. It's a great read, and I highly recommend checking it out. And if you haven't already done so, be sure to read part one as well. Archived News >

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