Queering the stage: Critical displacement in the theater of Else Lasker-Schüler and Mae West

Comparative Literature Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 54-71

  Finney, Gail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 60949676043     PISSN: 00104132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cls.2003.0006     Document Type: Article

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