Vol. 6, Issue 2, Part C (2024)

The modern sociopolitical discourses have been affected by the rise of post-truth era dramatically. There has been a thin line between fact and fiction due to proliferation of cyberspaces and social media to create volatile identities. The creation of “Baudrillardian hyperreality and erosion of objectivity have destabilized the position of truth. The dramatic rise of far-right governments worldwide with their parochial, jingoistic, and xenophobic brand of politics, privacy breach, and removal of subjective autonomy have forced the world to the verge of moral anarchy, irrespective of veracity and ethical values. 
Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte is a postmodern take of Don Quixote, a roguish novel by Miguel De Cervantes. This study is a critical analysis of the novel along with “post-truth condition”. The ideas of several philosophers like “Alain Badiou, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard” etc. are considered to trace the evolution of concept of truth to determine the theoretical implications and origin of post-truth era. Rushdie has discovered the foreground of modern socio-political issues, such as the devastating and pending effects of climate change, the opioid crisis, and unwarranted condition of immigrants who often faced racist violence. Rushdie has employed narrative pyrotechnics and magic realism in the novel.