Projection of Orientalist Ethos in Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans

Abstract

This research looks into Kazuo Ishiguro'sWhen We Were Orphansfrom the perspective of orientialism.In this novel the orientialistnotion is incredibly exposed. The main concern of this research is to show how the writer isguided through the orientalistview point. The researcher claims that the novelist is representing the east asbarbaric and civilized which is inspired through the artificial boundarycreated betweenorient and occidentby the west. The researcherdrawsorientialismto read the textwhich is significant for the general reader and to know thebiasedperspective of representation. The spectacle of west towards east is explored in this research.