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"roman": "anyāpadēśamu",
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"ref": "1995, Bunmi Sofola, Yours Sincerely: Selected Writings of Bunmi Sofola",
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"ref": "1998, Anna Banks, Stephen P. Banks, Fiction and Social Research: By Ice Or Fire, Rowman & Littlefield, page 43",
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"ref": "2012 January 15, Paulina Palmer, The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic, University of Wales Press, page 65",
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"ref": "2016 September 29, Jane K. Cowan, Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece, Princeton University Press, page 157",
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