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- 1 2 Benson, Eugene; Conolly, L W (2004). Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. p. 1004. ISBN 1134468482.
- ↑ "Academic Staff". Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics. University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.
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