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In:Ruptured Commons
Edited by Anna Guttman and Veronica J. Austen
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 19] 2024
► pp. 75–98

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Chapter 4
Drawing life in limbo

Refugee lifeworlds in Kate Evans’s Threads: From the Refugee Crisis

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Published online: 10 October 2024
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