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Research Article

“Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?” The Wizarding World of Harry Potter as a constructed site of (artificial) collective memory, identity, and resistance

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Pages 230-251 | Received 18 Jan 2023, Accepted 16 Aug 2023, Published online: 04 Sep 2023

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