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RMST 202 Literatures and Cultures of the Romance World II: Modern to Post-Modern
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Rodoreda on Destitution and Bricolage

The challenge is to try to stitch things up, paper over the cracks, create new attachments or conjunctions of people and objects in a bricolage that is no longer indebted to myths of organic harmony or natural inclination.

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