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“Bullets and barter”: The force of love speech in Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body

Courtney JacobsDepartment of English, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 481-491 | Published online: 01 Feb 2018

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