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- ↑ Montage of a Dream Deferred.In:William Andrews; Frances Smith Foster; Trudier Harris.The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature.1 ed.Oxford University Press;2001. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195138832.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-513883-2.
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