Creole as 'third space' in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys's novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) depicts Antoinette Cosway, a white Creole girl and descendant of the colonizers, torn between his white creole identity and his affiliation and attachment to the colonized people of color of postcolonial Jamaica. Antoinette is not fully accepted by either the blacks or the white European colonizers. He continually struggles to negotiate between the completely opposite expectations and spaces of black Jamaican and white European culture. As a result, Antoinette falls into a state of “in-betweenness” as she loses her sense of belonging to both cultures. Antoinette's occupation of a hybrid position dismantles the stable binary of black/white, colonizer/colonized. Hybridity interrogates and deconstructs the Western hegemonic assumption of stable subjectivity and meaning. Destabilizing the notion of self and Other as imagined by Western grand narratives, hybridity proposes that the self is constructed by multiple ideologies and multiple discourses at the same time. Antoinette's frustration and instability stem from her inability to belong to a particular community and culture. Being a white Creole, she oscillates between the European world of her ancestors and the Caribbean culture into which she was born. The fact that she was born in Jamaica as a white Creole with a European background problematizes her identity which does not fully belong to either, thus creating a hybrid status. Rhys through Antoinette's "in-between space" or a "Third Space", as Homi K. Bhabha argues, takes a position that identity is ambivalent and crucially challenged in the hegemonic colonial context. I propose to argue that Antoinett..... . middle of sheet ......n: Twayne Publishers, 1980.Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. The Empire responds. 2nd. New York: Routledge, 2002. Brathwaite, Edward Kamau. "Creolization in Jamaica." The Postcolonial Studies Reader. Ed. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. New York: Routledge, 1995. 202-205.Habib, M. A. R. “Feminist Criticism.” A history of literary criticism: from Plato to the present day. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. 667-707. Nunez, Elizabeth. Bruised hibiscus. Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 2000. Nunez-Harrell, Elizabeth. “The Paradoxes of Belonging: The White West Indian Woman in Fiction.” MFS Modern Fiction Studies 31.2 (1985): 281-293.Mezei, Kathy. “‘And He Kept His Secret’: Narrative, Memory, and Madness in the Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.” Criticism 28.4 (1987): 195-209.Rhys, Jean. The complete novels. New York: WW Norton & Company Inc., 1985