This book is devoted to developments in postcolonial literature in four geographical spaces: the Indian space,the West Indian space, the Eastern and Western world and the South African space. It explores a highly debated issue in postcolonial studies - the theme of hybridity - as narrated by four outstanding writers coming from different cultural backgrounds: Amitav Ghosh, Derek Walcott, Salman Rushdie and Nadine Gordimer.