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Humour in exile: The subversive effects of laughter in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Gisèle Pineau’s L’Exil selon Julia

Rachelle Okawa UCLA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 16-27 | Published online: 25 Nov 2011

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