Narration and migration: Jazz and vernacular theories of black women's fiction

American Literary History

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 291-316

  Dubey, Madhu ^a  

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EID: 60950616264     PISSN: 08967148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/alh/10.2.291     Document Type: Article

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