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“In the desert, we are all illegal aliens”: Border Confluences and Border Wars in Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway Cover

“In the desert, we are all illegal aliens”: Border Confluences and Border Wars in Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway

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|Dec 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2019-0022 | Journal eISSN: 1841-964X | Journal ISSN: 1841-1487
Language: English
Page range: 189 - 205
Published on: Dec 21, 2019
Published by: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

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