Vol. 6, Issue 1, Part B (2024)

In fictional discourse, the “post-truth” is the concept which explains the ways to build hyperreality. In a literary and postmodern text creating a varied ambience, any interpretations are possible and post-truth is important to create narratives of hyperreality. The most recent novel by Salman Rushdie, Quichotte (2019) is a postmodern reimagination of Don Quixote which is written by “Miguel de Cervantes” as a satire to the culture of post-truth era. Rushdie presents a post-truth world in Quichotte on the verge of spiritual and moral collapse to focus on the challenges for modern society. 
This study reveals the mimicry of post-truth condition of first-generation Indian immigrants who shifted to the US in Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte. Deploying the post-colonial concepts of mimicry by Homi K. Bhabha, this study adopts analytical and descriptive approach to analyze reasons and processes of mimicry which has been through five characters of Indian immigrants in the US – “Dr. R.K. Smile, Ismail Smile (Quichotte), Ms. Salma R., Brother (Sam DuChamp), and Awwal Sant (Evel Cent). Findings of the study observed that mimicry of five characters of immigrants originates from adaptations and assimilation with the Western culture as an effect of Anglosphere society. To integrate with Western culture, the constant attempts of imitation are observed through mimicry. The attempts of mimicry are triggered with acts of prejudice and discrimination in some characters as they are considered as the “Other” by the White society.