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- Published 20070904
- ISBN: 9780733321269
- Extent: 264 pp
- Paperback (234 x 153mm)
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John Docker
John Docker is a well-known literary and cultural critic, and public intellectual.He has written on contemporary theories of culture, identity, and diaspora; Orientalism and...
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