Hybridity in Arudhati Roy’s the God of Small Things Essay Example

of hybridity refers to the creation of new transcultural forms in the contact zone that arise from colonization. In horticulture, hybridity is used to describe the process of cross-pollination, resulting in a third species called 'hybrid'. Hybridization can occur in various areas such as language, culture, politics, and race. Homi K. Bhabha has recently become closely associated with the term 'hybridity' because his work explores the interdependence and reciprocal construction of subjectivities between colonizers and the colonized.

Bhabha argues that cultural statements and systems are created within a space referred to as the Third Space of Enunciation. This space is contradictory and ambivalent, rendering the idea of hierarchical "purity of cultures" impossible. Bhabha suggests that acknowledging this ambivalent space can help us move beyond exoticism of cultural diversity and recognize the productive capacities of the Third Space, which have roots in colonial or postcolonial origins.