Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

Table of table of contents\n\nIntroduction\n2. Season of Migration to the northwest\n2.1. Initial Disarrays\n2.2. Mustafa Saeeds flatbed\n2.3. Mustafa Saeeds Library\n3. remainder\n\nIntroduction\nThis paper is an exploration of the complex development of identity operator closely related to the defining of a sense of berth and lieu in Tayeb Salihs Season of Migration to the North. Published in 1966, only ten old age after Sudan received its emancipation from the British Empire, it challenges the opposition of contemporaneity and traditionalism by characterisation the distance between capital of the United Kingdom during the 1920ies and the rural countryside of the Sudan. The paper examines the conjecture that identity and the shaping of place is static. Studying the two disparate yet intertwined struggles of creating a significant place of the protagonists, I pull up stakes take a ambient look at Mustafa Saeed and the obscure narrator and try to illuminate, how col onial politics created sunrise(prenominal) spaces and change their way of thinking and spiritedness in these spaces. A nominate point of interest go forth be the description of Mustafa Saeeds two places, the apartment in London and the secret news report room, he created during the narrative as possible reflections of his identity, and the contrasted procedure of the anon. narrator. In the process of examining the clean it will become likely how Salih managed to dissolve existing boundaries of eastside and West and thus strengthened a room for new conceptualizations of social realities. Instead of succeeding(a) the dualism of North and South, he places the referee in the ambiguous order of colonial encounter through his main character Mustafa Saeed, who is model(prenominal) for a whole lodge in disarray after a history of colonization. I will emphasize the consequences of imperialism presented in Season of Migration to the North, in which the conclusion of the impe rial power clashes with the nuance of its victims and thus try to state how the author manages to resolve tradition...