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Bracketing the Possible: Mariama Bâ's FESTAC Memories

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PMLA , Volume 139 , Issue 5 , October 2024 , pp. 902 - 907
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Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Modern Language Association of America

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