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The dialogic imagination of Salman Rushdie and Carlos Fuentes: National allegories and the scene of writing inMidnight’s Children andCristóbal Nonato

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Juan-Navarro, S. The dialogic imagination of Salman Rushdie and Carlos Fuentes: National allegories and the scene of writing inMidnight’s Children andCristóbal Nonato . Neohelicon 20, 257–312 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02538816

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