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Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: Beyond 9/11

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Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: Beyond 9/11. / Kanwal, Aroosa.
1st ed. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 223 p.

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Kanwal A. Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: Beyond 9/11. 1st ed. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 223 p. doi: 10.1057/9781137478443

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Kanwal, Aroosa. / Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction : Beyond 9/11. 1st ed. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 223 p.

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