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Tracing Lines in the Trauma of Displacement: Slavery in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise and Afterlives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2023

Esther Pujolràs-Noguer
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PMLA , Volume 138 , Issue 2 , March 2023 , pp. 381 - 390
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