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In:Ruptured Commons
Edited by Anna Guttman and Veronica J. Austen
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 19] 2024
► pp. 182–203

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Chapter 9
Mothering the anthropocene

Entropic satire in Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

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Published online: 10 October 2024
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