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Committed Writing as Common Ground: Jesmyn Ward’s Poetics of Breathing While Black

Laura Bieger


Pages 73 - 79

DOI https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2021/1/14


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10 Ward, Jesmyn. Introduction. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race. Ed. Jesmyn Ward. New York: Scribner, 2016. 1-8. Print.

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