Insurgent Imaginations
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Insurgent Imaginations
Author: Auritro Majumder
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2020-10-22
This book illustrates how internationalist writers marginalized the West and placed the non-Western regions in a new center.
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