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Heterotopic Materiality, Comics, and Translation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2023

Katherine Kelp-Stebbins
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PMLA , Volume 138 , Issue 3 , May 2023 , pp. 730 - 740
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Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Modern Language Association of America

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