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Alexandra Alvarez (no date) ‘Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream”: The Speech Event as Metaphor’, Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 18(No. 3), pp. 337–357.
Alexie, Sherman (1997) The lone ranger and tonto fistfight in heaven. London: Vintage.
Alexie, Sherman and Eyre, Christopher (no date) ‘Smoke signals’. Miramax.
Alvarez, Julia (1999) Something to declare. New York, N.Y.: Plume.
Alvarez, Julia (2004a) How the García girls lost their accents. London: Bloomsbury.
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Elizabeth Vander Lei (no date) ‘Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” in Context: Ceremonial Protest and African American Jeremiad’, College English, Vol. 62(No. 1), pp. 83–99.
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