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