MLA Citation Guide

Early, Frances H. “Staking Her Claim: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Transgressive Woman Warrior.” Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 35, no.3, 2001, pp. 11-27.

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Pumphrey, Nicholaus. “Avenger, Mutant, or Allah: A Short Evolution of the Depiction of Muslims in Marvel Comics.” Muslim World, vol. 106, no. 4, Oct. 2016, pp. 781–794. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1111/muwo.12170.

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Goldman, Anne. “Questions of Transport: Reading Primo Levi Reading Dante.” The Georgia Review, vol. 64, no. 1, spring 2010, pp. 69-88. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41403188.

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Rowland, Lucy. “Speculative Solutions: The Development of Environmental and Ecofeminist Discourse in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam.” Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 40, no. 2, June 2015, pp. 46-68, https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/24548/28458. PDF download.

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