Key Words: postcolonialism, orientalism, postmodern paroody, Wide Sargasso Sea, Jane Eyre His orientalist and “othering” attitude towards Antoinette and the Creole way of life in the Caribbean and the related crucial identity problems of Antoinette will be discussed within the framework of this postcolonial reading on Wide Sargasso Sea. Accordingly, within the context of this paper, the other version of the story of “the othered” will be examined from a post colonialist perception through the representations of the characters especially, that of Mr. “Orientalism, in Said’s formulation, is principally a way of defining and ‘locating’ Europe’s others”. Despite the fact that the story retold in Wide Sargasso Sea on the surface seems to be a pathetic love story of a Creole woman who goes crazy due to unrequited love in her marriage to an English man, through a close postcolonial reading of the novel several crucial cultural and political orientalist attitudes towards Creole people, Europe’s alternative and potential “other,” are depicted.
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