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Mariama Bâ, Younousse Seye, and the Ambivalence of Canonization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2025

Merve Fejzula
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PMLA , Volume 139 , Issue 5 , October 2024 , pp. 908 - 914
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