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From Gay Postmodern to Black/Queer Transness: Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library and Paul Mendez’s Rainbow Milk

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Pages 778-799 | Received 04 Mar 2021, Accepted 26 Apr 2021, Published online: 29 Jul 2021

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