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Item Orientalist Representation in Kincaid’s Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya(Department of English, 2022) Kharel, PragyaThis research casts light on how orientalism has relegated non-west into degraded level even in the postcolonial period. The nonwestern characters in Kincaid’s Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya are subjected to various harrowing experiences. This text presents Sunam,, Khenpo and Rimpoche as representative nonwestern people. Tibetans have their own lifestyle, culture, civilization and attitude to native people. Kincaid portrays the troubled relation between the non-west and west. The entire regional culture and geography of Tibet, Nepal and India appears to be an exotic land caught in the turmoil and tension created by the conflicting interests of various power centers. The zone is stereotyped as the defeated, sterile, surreal, and static world. Most of the characters in this text are found humiliated, defeated, and resigned to their lives due to systematic marginalization of the west. Key terms: Orient, Misrepresentation, Hegemony, Post colonialism, MarginalizationItem Orientalist Representation in Kincaid’s Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya(Department of English, 2022) Kharel, PragyaThis research casts light on how orientalism has relegated non-west into degraded level even in the postcolonial period. The nonwestern characters in Kincaid’s Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya are subjected to various harrowing experiences. This text presents Sunam,, Khenpo and Rimpoche as representative nonwestern people. Tibetans have their own lifestyle, culture, civilization and attitude to native people. Kincaid portrays the troubled relation between the non-west and west. The entire regional culture and geography of Tibet, Nepal and India appears to be an exotic land caught in the turmoil and tension created by the conflicting interests of various power centers. The zone is stereotyped as the defeated, sterile, surreal, and static world. Most of the characters in this text are found humiliated, defeated, and resigned to their lives due to systematic marginalization of the west. Key terms: Orient, Misrepresentation, Hegemony, Post colonialism, MarginalizationItem Subjectivity Crisis in Thapa's Seasons of Flight(Department of English, 2014) Khadka, AnuHuman desires are unlimited but the scopes for fulfillment are limited that reinforce to add subjectivity crisis of the self. People are struggling for their existence as well as their identity. To maintain their social status and make their future bright, they go abroad and feel sense of identity .The advancement of technology helps men to fulfill their basic necessities without arduous working but the hunger for materialistic gain destroys their mental peace and tranquility. As a result, people ultimately feel disintegration, marginalization, sense of restlessness, dislocation and the state of limbo. For example, protagonist of Seasons of Flight, Prema experiences frustration, anxiety, and self-disintegration and restlessness while staying in America. Her pleasure seeking tendency causes her ultimate fragmentation of her personality. This thesis, based with on the theory of post colonialism, exposes how her subjectivity turned into fragmented self and collapse of her identity which turns towards sense of restlessness.