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The Battle Within and the Battle Without: The Posthuman Worldview of Ken MacLeod’s The Corporation Wars Trilogy

By: INDRAJIT PATRA  
Open Access
|Dec 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2021-0019 | Journal eISSN: 1841-964X | Journal ISSN: 1841-1487
Language: English
Page range: 85 - 104
Published on: Dec 30, 2021
Published by: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

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