Friends, Judaism, and the Holiday Armadillo: Mapping a rhetoric of postidentity politics

Communication Theory

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 453-473

  Rockler, Naomi R ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITICAL THEORY; TELEVISION;

ARMADILLO;

EID: 33750622758     PISSN: 10503293     EISSN: 14682885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.2006.00278.x     Document Type: Article

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