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Editor's Column—The Fantasy of the Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Simon Gikandi
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PMLA , Volume 128 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 9 - 20
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Copyright © 2013 by The Modern Language Association of America

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