• Mrs .B. Hemavathy

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a world-acclaimed author, born in Calcutta, who published literary works of various genres with poems, novels and short stories paving new ways for understanding of humanistic issues of the world. Divakurani has attracted readers’ attention with her poetry and fiction dealing with problems of Indian emigrants. The paper is a study on The Mistress of Species, a fantasy novel short- listed for the Orange Prize. This charming and compelling read won readership with its magical realism and omnipresent sensuality. The characters of Divakurani’s work cross the boundaries between dream and reality and question their own understanding of life and reason. The article focuses how the novel realism is morphed into magical realism.

fantasy, myth, realism, magical reality, postmodernism, stream of consciousness.

"THE MAGICAL REALISM IN 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 4, page no.1-4, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBA06001.pdf

"THE MAGICAL REALISM IN 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 4, page no. pp1-4, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBA06001.pdf