Season of Migration to the North

Name: Season of Migration to the North
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Tayeb Salih
ISBN: 9780894773365

Tayeb Salih • 1966

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Emotionally Ruined

colonialism Sudan identity postcolonial

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Our Take

Mustafa Sa'eed travels from Sudan to England and weaponizes English women's orientalism against them. Salih inverts Conrad, makes the Arab narrator the figure of knowledge, and the result is a meditation on colonialism and sexuality that refuses every easy reading.

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► Colonialism and Its Aftermath — The Wound That Runs Forward ► Post-Colonial Africa — The Nation After the Empire ► Apartheid — The Architecture of Dehumanization

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