Cultural Encounters: Glimpses of the United States in Late Twentieth-Century Romanian Travel Narratives
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عنوان ژورنال: East-West Cultural Passage
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2067-5712
DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2019-0005