The disfigured body of the female guerrilla: (De)militarization, sexual violence, and redomestication in Zoë Wicomb's David's Story

Signs

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 833-856

  Samuelson, Meg ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

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EID: 34249866170     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/512491     Document Type: Article

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