Abstract
This paper aims to analyse the novels that are foregrounded as the works of postcolonial literature in England; Timothy Mo’s Sour Sweet and Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans within the frame of The Other Edward Said refers to in his work Orientalism. The study focuses on the fact that the novels confirm Edward Said’s claims as to the fact that the concepts of the East and the West are nothing but geographical regions named by human beings both of which has its own history, tradition, thought, imagination and vocabulary and thus any sort of discrepancy between them is fictional. Before the analysis of the novels, a background information as to the period in which the works were written with the definition and existence of imperialism that came into existence after The Second World War has been presented. In addition to this, how imperialism was reflected into the literature of the era, the role of Edward Said in this regard and his definition of orientalism has been presented. Then, the novels Timothy Mo’s Sour Sweet and Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans have been examined in the light of Edward Said’s concept of the other. It has been concluded that although the postcolonial writers have different approach to postcolonial issues, the problems caused by cultural identity and alienation and the desire for belonging are found in both novels. Moreover, it has been concluded that Eastern or Western anyone can experience the feeling of unable to feel belonging to somewhere else and thus this feeling is not unique for the eastern as claimed by the westerns.