TY - GEN A1 - Filipczak, Iwona A2 - Łobodziec, Agnieszka - red. nauk. A2 - Filipczak, Iwona - red. nauk. PB - Zielona Góra: Oficyna Wydawnicza Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego N2 - The aim of the article is to discuss the discourse of hybridity employed in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni`s "The Mistress of Spices". It is argued that under the veneer of exoticism (otherness created by culinary images, magic, and cross-cultural desire) the novel displays political engagement: it destabilizes mainstream categories such as white/black, authentic/ inauthentic, American/un-American, introduces ambiguity and ultimately challenges the center/periphery paradigm . N2 - The nation`s margins, represented by an immigrant from the Indian subcontinent and a half-Native American, display a creative potential of dismantling exclusionary narratives of the nation (Bhabha) . Accordingly, the novel can be read as Divakaruni`s attempt to show the complicated cross-cultural relations in America, thus indicating the need of constant renegotiation of American identity without a discernible center and periphery . L1 - http://www.zbc.uz.zgora.pl/Content/60097/4_filipczak_out.pdf L2 - http://www.zbc.uz.zgora.pl/Content/60097 KW - Asian American fiction KW - hybrid identity KW - authenticity KW - diaspora T1 - Out of the margins: negotiating American identities in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni`s "The Mistress of Spices" UR - http://www.zbc.uz.zgora.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=60097 ER -