In:Literature as Dialogue: Invitations offered and negotiated
Edited by Roger D. Sell
[Dialogue Studies 22] 2014
► pp. 99–114
The dialogic potential of "literary autism"
Caryl Phillips’s Higher Ground (1989) and Marie NDiaye’s Trois femmes puissantes (2009)
Published online: 7 August 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.22.05led
https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.22.05led
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