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Graphic Novel Histories: Women’s Organized Resistance to Slum Clearance in Crossroads, South Africa, 1975–2015

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

Koni Benson
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Keywords

Forced removalsAfrican historywomengenderapartheidCrossroadsCape TownSouth Africagraphic novelscomicscartoons
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ASR FORUM ON WOMEN AND GENDER IN AFRICA: PART 2
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African Studies Review , Volume 59 , Issue 1 , April 2016 , pp. 199 - 214
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2016 

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