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Decolonising the ‘epistemic decolonial turn’ in women's fiction: Tsitsi Dangarembga's She No Longer Weeps (1987) and Federico Garcia Lorca's Dona Rosita the Spinister (2008)

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Pages 304-317 | Received 14 Feb 2013, Accepted 19 Jun 2013, Published online: 11 Oct 2013

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