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Worldmaking from the South and “By the Sea” in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Fiction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2023

Meg Samuelson
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PMLA , Volume 138 , Issue 2 , March 2023 , pp. 362 - 367
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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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