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Literature, Linguistics & Criticism

The centre and pathology: Postmodernist reading of madness in the oppressor in contemporary fiction

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Article: 2249280 | Received 31 Dec 2022, Accepted 14 Aug 2023, Published online: 29 Aug 2023

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