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The City as Autobiography in Darryl Pinckney’s Black Deutschland
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The City as Autobiography in Darryl Pinckney’s Black Deutschland

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William Harrison
/ 14 April 2016
Leaping from one fragmented city to the next, Pinckney’s narrator uses history to simultaneously define and obscure himself.
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‘Spooner’: The Travails of the Dim One

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Zachary Houle
/ 17 March 2011
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The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had to, by D.C. Pierson

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Zachary Houle
/ 2 March 2010

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