Routes to their roots

This work aims at discussing the fictional representation of Indian subjects in the short stories “The Courter” and “The interpreter of Maladies”, by Salman Rushdie and Jumpha Lahiri correspondingly. Rushdie and Larihi’s short stories seem to converse with each other in the sense that they depict “the plight of those who are torn between motherlands and mother tongues”. Accordingly, this discussion will consider the similarities and differences between the multiple journeys Rushdie and Lahiri’s characters partake and the implication of such episodes in their lives. Thus, the main objective of this article is to especially consider the way these characters negotiate with the clash of belonging to two cultures: the East (India) and the West (England, in “The Courter”, and the U.S., in “The Interpreter of Maladies), which happens to be one of the most striking aspects of the immigrant experience

Converse · Diaspora · Immigration · Interpreter · Negotiation · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Short Stories in Global Literature