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The incest wound in Hindi cinema: childhood trauma and feminist futures in Monsoon Wedding and Highway

Megha Anwera Honors College, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Vrinda Marwahb The College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USAView further author information
Pages 1159-1176 | Received 27 Jul 2018, Accepted 26 Aug 2019, Published online: 09 Sep 2019

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