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Queer Ancient Ways: A Decolonial Exploration.

Queer Ancient Ways advocates a profound unlearning of colonial/modern categories as a pathway to the discovery of new forms and theories of queerness in the most ancient of sources. In this radically unconventional work, Zairong Xiang investigates scholarly receptions of mythological figures in Baby...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Xiang, Zairong (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Earth, Milky Way : punctum books, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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