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12 - Chicana/o literature in the West

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2016

By
Rafael Pérez-Torres
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Steven Frye
Steven Frye
Affiliation:
California State University, Bakersfield
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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West , pp. 153 - 169
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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