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Monolingualism, Dispossession, and the Biopolitics of Language

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Sarah Dowling is the author of three books of poetry, as well as the scholarly book Translingual Poetics: Writing Personhood under Settler Colonialism (U of Iowa P, 2018). She is writing about supine and prone figures in contemporary writing, and she teaches at the University of Toronto, in the Centre for Comparative Literature, and at Victoria College.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2022

Sarah Dowling
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PMLA , Volume 137 , Issue 5 , October 2022 , pp. 902 - 908
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Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Modern Language Association of America

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