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Looking Backward to a Distant Land: South Asian Diaspora and Function of Nostalgia in “Silver Pavements, Golden Roofs,” “Mrs. Sen’s” and The Inheritance of Loss

Farzana AkhterDepartment of English, East West University, Dhaka, BangladeshCorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
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Pages 373-386 | Received 31 Aug 2019, Accepted 15 Oct 2020, Published online: 02 Nov 2020

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