This paper (Persian Quest in Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker) takes a contemporary novel as its departure to talk about recent tendencies in postmodern literature. Kathy Acker’s “Blood and Guts in High Schoo” (1984) is an experimental fiction filled with history, politics and theory. Acker, often termed as being mainly a punk poet, makes extensive use of metafictional strategies to reflect on the process, nature and techniques of writing. Belonging to the literary genre of cyberpunk (a mixture between science fiction and fantasies of virtual reality), Acker`s novel is hinting to the strategies of contemporary writing and literary criticism in general, about genre conventions, as well as topics like (post)genre and technology. The core idea of our paper is the analysis of this experimental fiction, the novel in question combining narration with poems, dream maps and erotic drawings. Using the techniques of collage, the novel has different narrative voices and it seems to be written in a new language of an experimental style: parody, plagiarism, pathological oedipal family structure (which mirrors the larger political frame of global capitalism, with its odd desires and economic or sexual oppression), all these are describing a postmodern inferno. The paper will focus on the protagonist`s acquisition of Persian language, describing Janey`s struggles to discover, experience and understand a totally different world as opposed to the Western one. Regarding the main thesis, we intend to prove that Orientalism is being used as a stereotype in Acker`s book and the arguments will corroborate Said`s famous analysis of Middle Eastern and East Asian cultures with the protagonist`s views on this highly provocative subject.