"The only real white democracy" and the language of liberation: The great war, France, and African American culture in the 1920s

MFS - Modern Fiction Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 775-800

  Whalan, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 60950408815     PISSN: 00267724     EISSN: 1080658X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2006.0012     Document Type: Review

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