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Chronic Trauma, (Post) Colonial Chronotopes And Palestinian Lives: Omar Robert Hamilton's Though I Know the River is Dry/Ma'a Anni A'rif Anna al-Nahr Qad Jaf

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Chronic Trauma, (Post) Colonial Chronotopes And Palestinian Lives: Omar Robert Hamilton's Though I Know the River is Dry/Ma'a Anni A'rif Anna al-Nahr Qad Jaf. / Moore, Lindsey; Qabaha, Ahmad.
Postcolonial Traumas: Memory, Narrative, Resistance. ed. / Abigail Ward. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. p. 14-29.

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Moore L, Qabaha A. Chronic Trauma, (Post) Colonial Chronotopes And Palestinian Lives: Omar Robert Hamilton's Though I Know the River is Dry/Ma'a Anni A'rif Anna al-Nahr Qad Jaf. In Ward A, editor, Postcolonial Traumas: Memory, Narrative, Resistance. Palgrave Macmillan. 2015. p. 14-29 doi: 10.1057/9781137526434_2

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Moore, Lindsey ; Qabaha, Ahmad. / Chronic Trauma, (Post) Colonial Chronotopes And Palestinian Lives : Omar Robert Hamilton's Though I Know the River is Dry/Ma'a Anni A'rif Anna al-Nahr Qad Jaf. Postcolonial Traumas: Memory, Narrative, Resistance. editor / Abigail Ward. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. pp. 14-29

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