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   2. Christian T Barbara, Black Feminist Criticism: Perspective on Black Women Writers (New York: Pergamon, 1985)
   3.  Rowbotham, Sheila. ‘The Trouble with Patriarchy, ‘The Women Question, ed. Mary Evans (Oxford: Fontana paperback),
   4. De, Shobha, Shooting from the Hip: Selected Writing (New Delhi: USB Publishers Distributors, 1994).
   5. Anita Desai, Clear Light of the Day (Middlesex: Penguin Book, 1980) all textual reference are from this edition
   6. Shobha De, Snapshot (New Delhi: Penguin Book, 1995).