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LITERATURE, LINGUISTICS & CRITICISM

Sensibility, Virginity, Possession and the Polity of Power: A Postcolonial Reading of Fleda’s Quest of Aesthetic and Ethical Autonomy in The Spoils of Poynton

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Article: 2034282 | Received 05 Jul 2021, Accepted 14 Jan 2022, Published online: 22 Feb 2022

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