Based on Said’s orientalism theory, the paper provides an analysis of Miguel Street, the early work written by the famous British immigrant writer, annalistic writer, V.S. Naipaul, who was the Nobel Laureate in 2001. Naipaul is a writer of double identities, i.e. the first world scholar with the third world origin. When he “gazes” at orient from the stand of oriental scholars, he has “been gazed” by occidental colonists. The realistic depiction of the foolish, narrow-minded, slothfully corrupted, culturally rootless mass on Miguel Street represents the oriental images defined by western literati. However, the application of black humor technique in the work is the colonial writer’s way of self-ridicule on his own state of be politically, ec...