Abstract:
The present study of intercultural communication in literary discourse attempts to
foreground the relevance of the study of Indian Diasporic literary texts by analyzing
intercultural communication as represented in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The
Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. Desai is an Indian Diasporic writer who introduces
words from the Indian languages in particular contexts, and predicates culture specific
differences to convey her meaning to the reader. The study aims at providing a contextual
framework to the field of literary discourse based upon the tools for analysis of Intercultural
Communication enunciated by Allwood (1985).
