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“The wrong side of the desk”: Material and Discursive Struggle in Bud Osborn’s Downtown Eastside Cover

“The wrong side of the desk”: Material and Discursive Struggle in Bud Osborn’s Downtown Eastside

By: Connor Robinson  
Open Access
|Oct 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2024-0005 | Journal eISSN: 1841-964X | Journal ISSN: 1841-1487
Language: English
Page range: 73 - 92
Published on: Oct 10, 2024
Published by: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

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