Beyond the Overseer’s Eye: Carceral Surveillance, Intimacy, and Black Resistance in Ernest J. Gaines’s Of Love and Dust
By: Yazdan Mahmoudi
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Language: English
Page range: 96 - 109
Published on: Jun 30, 2026
Published by: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
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