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Desire under conflict: The potential for queer in Hoda Barakat’s The Stone of Laughter

Feras AlkabaniUniversity of Sussex, Brighton, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 352-366 | Published online: 08 Jul 2019

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