What's goin' on around here?': Dancing Past Binaries and Boundaries in The Little Colonel

Authors

  • Dawn Sardella-Ayres

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.rydl.v3i.1563

Keywords:

The Little Colonel, binaries and boundaries, youth literature

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Published

2021-04-27