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Euryclea's Greeting: Literary and Linguistic Palimpsests in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Oeuvre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2023

Tina Steiner
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PMLA , Volume 138 , Issue 2 , March 2023 , pp. 398 - 405
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