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“Dig, What Makes Your Mouth So Big?”: Off-Modern Nostalgia, Symbolic Cannibalism, and Crossing the Border of the Universal Language in Clarence Major’s “The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage” Cover

“Dig, What Makes Your Mouth So Big?”: Off-Modern Nostalgia, Symbolic Cannibalism, and Crossing the Border of the Universal Language in Clarence Major’s “The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage”

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|Dec 2017

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/stap-2017-0009 | Journal eISSN: 2082-5102 | Journal ISSN: 0081-6272
Language: English
Page range: 251 - 268
Published on: Dec 29, 2017
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

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