The concept of hybridity allows identities and cultures to be conceptualized as different and manifold, allowing for the undermining of the binaries of self and other, centre and periphery, colonizer and colonized. This study provides a timely discussion of hybridity, examining it in the context of the Mauritian society depicted by Ananda Devi.

Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy is a modern foreign languages teacher in Nottingham. She holds an MPhil from the University of Nottingham. She has published widely on hybridity, corporeality, postcolonial madness, gender and identity issues, focusing on Ananda Devi’s writing as well as engaging in comparative analysis with Caribbean Francophone writing.

Contents: Locating Hybridity: Mauritius in Context – Hybrid Contexts, Hybrid Texts? – Interrogating ‘Hybrid’ Identities: Doubling, Fragmentation and Schizoids in Devi’s Novels – Hybrid Bodies: Alterity in Devi’s Novels – Conclusion: Towards a Poetics of Hybridity.