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Literature and the Right to Be Human

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2021

Simon Gikandi
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Presidential Address 2020
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PMLA , Volume 135 , Issue 5 , October 2020 , pp. 847 - 858
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Copyright © 2020 Simon Gikandi

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