The language of arboreal metamorphosis in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian notonly invokes the Ovidian myth of Daphne and Apollo but also establishes apost-anthropocentric perspective according to which the irreducible materialand symbolic connections between humans and other entities are brought tolight. Drawing on the Derridean concept of carnophallogocentrism, on onehand, and on posthuman feminist scholarship, on the other, this article arguesthat the protagonist’s gradual release from her bond to Anthropos to embraceforms of plant life highlights feminist posthumanism’s attempt to explore theintricate relationships of human beings with each other and other species outsidethe parameters of anthropocentrism.