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Returning the Symptom to Critique: Reading Epidemiologically

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2021

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Book Forum on Anjuli Raza Kolb’s Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817-2020
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Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , September 2021 , pp. 396 - 401
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