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- ↑ Chin, Timothy. "The Novels of Patricia Powell: Negotiating Gender and Sexuality Across the Disjunctures of the Caribbean Diaspora" in Callaloo - Volume 30, Number 2, Spring 2007, pp. 533-45.
- ↑ "Diasporic Imagination of the Grocery Shop in Patricia Powell's The Pagoda," by Lee Tsui-yu (Jade), National Kaohsiung Normal University. (website accessed 17 January 2009).
- ↑ Mundo de Mujeres/Women's Worlds 2008, La literatura como fuerza politica/Literature as a political force, video by Universidad Complutense Madrid, recorded 7 July 2008. Powell read her paper on "Writing to Heal Ourselves and Each Other."
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