Fictions of America: Narratives of global empire

Fictions of America: Narratives of Global Empire

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-195

  Newman, Judie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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