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Representing Environmental Disaster in the Anthropocene: Varun Thomas Mathew’s The Black Dwarves of the Good Little Bay as an Ecodystopia Cover

Representing Environmental Disaster in the Anthropocene: Varun Thomas Mathew’s The Black Dwarves of the Good Little Bay as an Ecodystopia

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|Dec 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2024-0003 | Journal eISSN: 2067-5712 | Journal ISSN: 1583-6401
Language: English
Page range: 29 - 45
Published on: Dec 6, 2024
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

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