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Decolonizing Literature

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Bowles, D. (2023, September 26). The Prince & The Coyote. Kirkus Reviews. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/david-bowles/the-prince-and-the-coyote/ 

Caswell, M., Cifor, M. & Ramirez, M. H. (2016). “To Suddenly Discover Yourself Existing”:  Uncovering the Impact of Community Archives’. The American Archivist, 79(1), 56-81. 

Goodreads Inc. (n.d.). Goodreads. https://www.goodreads.com/ 

Kimmerer, R. W. (n.d.). Robin Wall Kimmerer. https://www.robinwallkimmerer.com/ 

Mambrol, N. (2017). Decolonization. Literary Theory and Criticism. https://literariness.org/2017/10/04/decolonization/amp/ 

Mishra, A. (2021). Why Do I Write in My Colonizer’s Language? Electric Lit. https://electricliterature.com/why-do-i-write-in-my-colonizers-language/ 

Petersen, K. Transnational Literature. https://www.yorku.ca/aklim/Anon/Transnational%20Literature.htm 

Sangwand, T.-K. (2018). Preservation is political: Enacting Contributive Justice and Decolonizing Transnational Archival collaborations. KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies, 2, 10. https://doi.org/10.5334/kula.36

Wikimedia Foundation. (2023b, November 29). The house on Mango Street. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_on_Mango_Street 

Wikimedia Foundation. (2023, December 1). The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School. Wikipedia.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lesbiana%27s_Guide_to_Catholic_School 

Wikimedia Foundation. (2023, November 27). Pachinko (novel). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachinko_(novel) 

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