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Dohra Ahmad is professor of English at St. John’s University. She is the author of Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America and editor of Rotten English: A Literary Anthology and The Penguin Book of Migration Literature. She has contributed an introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon. (January 2020)
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