FEAR, SEXUALITY, AND LIBERATION: PURSUIT OF THE SUBLIME IN CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI'S MISTRESS OF SPICES.

The paper explores the diasporic quest of fear, sexuality, and liberation under the renegotiation of the sublime experience. To evince the tumultuous integration of Indians into transnational communities, the realisation of sublime experiences is to be traced through Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's novel Mistress of Spices (1997). The process of struggle, abandonment and eventual transcendence from traditional models will be compared against the framework of a hostile and abject mythical environment. Propositions of Edmund Burke, Bharata, and Bonnie Mann will be referred to in the pursuit of the sublime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]