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Challenging Anthropocentrism in Tony Hillerman’s Detective Novel Listening Woman

By: Marwa Boubaker  
Open Access
|Dec 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2025-0016 | Journal eISSN: 2067-5712 | Journal ISSN: 1583-6401