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Where is Adaptation?: Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts
Edited by Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 9] 2018
► pp. 179–196

Chapter 10
Relocation as Adaptation in An African City

Article outline
  • Creative adaptation
  • Cultural adaptation
  • Continental adaptation
  • Conclusion: Adaptation as relocation
  • References
Published online: 16 October 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.9.11oli
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