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"Make My Day!": Spectacle as Amnesia in Imperial PoliticsAuthor(s): Michael RoginSource: Representations, No. 29 (Winter, 1990), pp. 99-123Published by: University of California PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2928420Accessed: 22/04/2010 02:08
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