“With a Home Nowhere, I Belong Everywhere”: Travel as a Heterotopic Space of Feminist Resistance in Shivya Nath’s The Shooting Star (2018)
By: Amrita Talukdar
and Priyanka Tripathi
and Priyanka Tripathi 
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Published on: Dec 11, 2023
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