• AnoopamaYadav
• Dr. Tamishra Swain

Today’s world is as borderless as it has ever been. People are immigrating to other countries at a faster rate than ever before. In this scenario, the postcolonial writers choose literature as a means to address and debate the difficult circumstances that these people face regarding their adaptation to hostland and their adopted lands. These hybrid characters make an effort to build their cultural identities which is open to doubt. These immigrants display a obsequious association to notions like ‘home’, ‘nation’ or ‘culture’ as well as create their selfhood as hybrid identity. The situation is more strained in case of South Asian diaspora because of their background of colonization. This is evident in the writings of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, who is an Indian Bengali writer and has migrated to the United States. She has efficiently made use of literature as a way to express the elements of hybridity exhibited by the different characters. Her novel The Mistress of Spices is a perfect choice for the study of elements of hybridity in different characters. My research paper alludes diasporic condition displaces the individuals from their homeland. But the drive extrinsically approved evenly in the alien land, force them to assent a kind of hybrid existence. This work investigates the presence of elements like otherness, unhomeliness, ambivalence, mimicry in-betweenness and creation of Third Space exhibited by different characters in the light of concepts given by Edward Said and Homi K Bhabha.

Immigration, Diaspora, Otherness, Hybridity, Unhomeliness, Ambivalence, Mimicry, In-betweenness, Third Space.

"Hybrid Identities: A Postcolonial Insight into Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.339-346, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905348.pdf

"Hybrid Identities: A Postcolonial Insight into Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp339-346, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905348.pdf