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In:Where is Adaptation?: Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts
Edited by Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 9] 2018
► pp. 179–196

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Chapter 10
Relocation as Adaptation in An African City

Published online: 16 October 2018
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Article outline
  • Creative adaptation
  • Cultural adaptation
  • Continental adaptation
  • Conclusion: Adaptation as relocation
  • References
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