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- ↑ Bazié, Isaac; Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen (2009). Violences postcoloniales: représentations littéraires et perceptions médiatiques (in French). Münster: LIT Verlag. p. 33. ISBN 3-643-10218-6.
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