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“The Blasted Man Made Me Vex”: Artistic Vulnerability, Satire, and Caribbean Literary Historiography Cover

“The Blasted Man Made Me Vex”: Artistic Vulnerability, Satire, and Caribbean Literary Historiography

By: Cornel Bogle  
Open Access
|Sep 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33596/anth.530 | Journal eISSN: 1547-7150
Language: English
Published on: Sep 17, 2025
Published by: University of Miami Libraries
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