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In:Ruptured Commons
Edited by Anna Guttman and Veronica J. Austen
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 19] 2024
► pp. 159–179

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Chapter 8
‘Dangerous, Ugly Air’

Reckoning with atmospheric and photosynthetic injustice in Dying for Gold

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Published online: 10 October 2024
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