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Resentful Humanitarianism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2022

María del Pilar Blanco
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PMLA , Volume 137 , Issue 1 , January 2022 , pp. 112 - 118
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Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Modern Language Association of America

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