Literature for our times: postcolonial studies in the twenty-first century, eds Bill Ashcroft, Ranjini Mendis, Julie McGonegal and Arun Mukherjee, Amsterdam & New York, Rodopi, 2012. (original) (raw)

Journal of Postcolonial Writing 50.2 (2014): 243-245

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