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“But how to speak of such things?”: decolonial love, the coloniality of gender, and political struggle in Francisco Goldman's The Long Night of White Chickens (1992) and Jennifer Harbury's Bridge of Courage (1994) and Searching for Everardo (1997)

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“But how to speak of such things?”: decolonial love, the coloniality of gender, and political struggle in Francisco Goldman's The Long Night of White Chickens (1992) and Jennifer Harbury's Bridge of Courage (1994) and Searching for Everardo (1997). / Gräbner, Cornelia.
In: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2014, p. 51-74.

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Gräbner, C 2014, '“But how to speak of such things?”: decolonial love, the coloniality of gender, and political struggle in Francisco Goldman's The Long Night of White Chickens (1992) and Jennifer Harbury's Bridge of Courage (1994) and Searching for Everardo (1997)', Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 51-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/14701847.2014.965885

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Gräbner, C. (2014). “But how to speak of such things?”: decolonial love, the coloniality of gender, and political struggle in Francisco Goldman's The Long Night of White Chickens (1992) and Jennifer Harbury's Bridge of Courage (1994) and Searching for Everardo (1997). Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 20(1), 51-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/14701847.2014.965885

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Gräbner C. “But how to speak of such things?”: decolonial love, the coloniality of gender, and political struggle in Francisco Goldman's The Long Night of White Chickens (1992) and Jennifer Harbury's Bridge of Courage (1994) and Searching for Everardo (1997). Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. 2014;20(1):51-74. doi: 10.1080/14701847.2014.965885

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Gräbner, Cornelia. / “But how to speak of such things?” : decolonial love, the coloniality of gender, and political struggle in Francisco Goldman's The Long Night of White Chickens (1992) and Jennifer Harbury's Bridge of Courage (1994) and Searching for Everardo (1997). In: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. 2014 ; Vol. 20, No. 1. pp. 51-74.

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