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Hearing the Pandemic in Claude McKay's “If We Must Die”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2021

Juliana Spahr
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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 136 , Issue 2 , March 2021 , pp. 254 - 257
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Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Modern Language Association of America

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