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Volume 52, 2023 - Issue 6: “Nevertheless, she persisted”: Girls, Literature for Girls, and the Politics of Persistence: Part II
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Research Article

“I want to do something with my life”: Reading Resistance in South Asian Girlhoods Portrayed in Keeping Corner, Climbing the Stairs, and Neela: Victory Song

Blessy SamjoseOhio State University, ColumbusCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 627-643 | Published online: 24 Jul 2023

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