"This history's only good for anger": Gender and Cultural Memory in Beatrice Chancy

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Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 97-124

  Moynagh, Maureen ^a  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 43249200496     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/340909     Document Type: Review

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