Tayeb Salih’s Season Of Migration To The North: From Interculturality To Introspection

Résumé: Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North constitutes a masterpiece of Arabic modern fiction.It revolves around many themes such as British-Sudanese interculturality, Sudanese women’s status in postcolonial Sudan. Interculutrality is seen by many critics as a thematic landmark of this novel.However, this paper argues that Tayeb Salih juxtaposes the past with the present and makes of interculturality a secondary theme in the postcolonial period in order to pinpoint the necessity to come to terms with the past colonial fractures due to the British colonization of the Sudan. Such a message is composed via a peculiar Mustafa Sa’eed Narrator frame which favors the narrator’s centrality over Mutafa Sa’eed’s simply because the postcolonial generation needs to go beyond the violence inherited from the colonial era.Tayeb Salih’s message in this paper is uncovered by the recourse to Gérard Genette’s and Jahn Manfred’s narrative theories.

Publié dans la revue: الآداب و اللغات