“Back to the World”: Reading Ecocriticism in a Postcolonial Context

Cross/Cultures

Volumn 92, Issue , 2007, Pages 177-199

  O’Brien, Susie ^a  

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EID: 85162920726     PISSN: 09241426     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1163/9789401204743_012     Document Type: Chapter

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