Imaginative Geography: Dialectical Orientalism in Borges
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Transports: travel, pleasure, and imaginative geography, 1600–1800
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2154-1361
DOI: 10.5070/t461030928