Abstract
Based on stereotyping the Other, both Orientalism and Occidentalism
focus on representations of the West and the East, the Self and the Other, and
their binary oppositions. These stereotyped images are especially present in
postcolonial literature, including the works by Indian English authors. The
dichotomy between the Orient and the Occident can, naturally, be best expressed
by writers who are of hybrid origin, such as Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Anita Desai
and Kiran Desai. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the instances of
Orientalist and Occidentalist discourse in some of their works, in which even the
protagonists are hybrid people, belonging at the same time to both of these two
worlds, to the East and to the West.
Publisher
Faculty of Philology - University of Montenegro