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The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation
Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble, and George Lipsitz
Duke University Press
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9780822354789
2013
$24.00
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A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition (Critical Perspectives in the Past)
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