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This paper examines the Arab world as it appears in Tayeb Salih's "Season of Migration to the North". The Arab World and its people share a long and harrowing history that has been marked by oppression, war, and foreign intervention and domination. The paper describes historical processes within the Arab world such as European colonization that led to interaction between the Eastern culture and the Western culture. "Season of Migration to the North" is a story about a Sudany who lives in England. This path of cultural exchange, along with the effects that this interaction produced, also symbolizes the central theme of the story.

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"According to the descendants of Daniel Webster, the term society can be broadly defined as either people in general or a community. Modern sociologists as well as contemporary historians, however, might refute this definition with the argument that it is too simplistic or elementary to adequately express the complicated network represented by this term. Individual society or society in general, they might argue, is a complex concept involving an interlocking framework structured by a wide variety of changing elements and influences. A framework, they might add, that we as humans shape as it simultaneously shapes us as humans."

Tags:East, West, culture, Arab, Sudan, migration, North, South

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This paper examines Tayeb Salih's narrator in "Season of Migration to the North" and Albert Camus' Mersault in "The Stranger" and, in particular, their growth experiences by means of facing death. The paper relates that the narrator in Tayeb Salih's "Season of Migration to the North", voyages as far as England, never standing still, in an attempt to flee from facing himself. Only when he is standing toe-to-toe with death, does he begin to appreciate the gift of life and make a decision in its favor. The paper then compares the narrator's behavior to that of the character of Mersault in Camus' "The Stranger", in which he refuses to move in any direction to ensure his own safety. Yet, when he eventually accepts his terminal verdict he then chooses to live deliberately. The paper concludes that both the protagonists' confrontations with death serves as a window for both characters to transcend their fear and see themselves more positively.

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"Both Salih and Camus indicate that the irrational fear of missing out causes equally irrational responses in those who suffer from it. Salih illustrates this pattern through his mountain allegory. "My sole concern was to reach London, another mountain, larger than Cairo, where I knew not how many nights I would stay," (26) says Mustafa exhibiting his urge to climb yet a higher mountain. His undirected greed aims at the future, because there he sees the potential of surpassing what he has already won. Regardless of any losses, he wreaks havoc amongst the British women for just the same reason: to live it all. "

Tags:Mersault, narrator, death

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The paper describes how Tayeb Salih in "Season of Migration to the North" uses both sacrificial and redemptive violence in his graphic depictions in his novel. The paper explains that the redemptive nature applies symbolically to the vanquishing of tradition and culture that mistreated and repressed members of society. The paper further explains that the sacrificial nature of the violence is those that died, with the hope that the living would ensure that their culture move on from the harmful and repressive traditions of the past.

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"The sacrificial hero gives his life violently so that others may live, in stories of redemption, often the villain meets a violent death at the hands of the hero. In Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North, there are several instances of violent ends, yet through this meandering story the true sacrificial or redemptive nature of these deaths are as intertwined as the fates of the characters to the end of British Colonialism in Africa. The story takes place in the early part of the twentieth century as the British Empire begins to fade away from its Victorian Glory. At the story's climax, the nameless narrator is pondering the events of his life and that of his dead friend Mustafa in a room that is the "cave of wonders" of Mustafa's life, all of the treasures gathered from a life ill spent (Salih 134)."

Tags:sacrificial, redemptive, violence, tradition, Mustafa, Jane, Hosna

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In this comparative study of E.M. Forster's "Passage to India" and Tayeb Salih's "Season of Migration to the North" the author looks at the similarities in both books that give unmediated experience as a partial solution to the political conflicts of the colonial and post-colonial eras. He looks at how both books present experiences freed from the constraints of place, time, circumstance and individual motivation. He sees this by placing their characters (briefly) outside of representation, through mystical transcendence. The author then proceeds in detail to examine the messages he believes both books are trying to give and relates each of these messages to the characters and locations of the book. For example, in "Passage to India" he spends some time looking at the towns mentioned and the Hindu religion practiced and how it affects the community and characters in the book. The author examines every chapter of each book and uses other texts to explain and justify his belief that there is transcendence and empathy in both books.

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"The refusal here to allow the imagination to go beyond its usual restraints is an important British problem in the novel. While dissatisfied with the quotidian structures of belief and reason they have practiced throughout their lives, they are still limited by them in their attempt to go beyond them. There is a great fear of the unknown, and the infinite - which is in principle unknowable - is the most fearful thing of all to minds that need strict systems upon which to base their processes of meaning generation. The English rely on their reason and familiar systems of thought to make sense of the world. Their problem, I posit, is one of scope, as Hans Gadamer states in Truth and Method: "A person who has no horizon does not see far enough and hence overvalues what is nearest him" (302). When posed with notions that precede and transcend their own systems, the English are left reeling, and retreat when possible to the safety of their own worlds."

Tags:subject, motivating, distinguishing, mystic, power, will, solutions

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This paper reviews "Season of Migration to the North" by Tayeb Salih. The paper focuses its analysis particularly on the nature of the graphic violence contained in the book. The paper examines whether the violence is redemptive or sacraficial in nature, and explores the concept of the type of violence in context of the storyline and plot developments. The paper notes that the central character is the narrator, and it is his journey that is at the core of the essay.

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"The sacrificial hero gives his life violently so that others may live, in stories of redemption, often the villain meats a violent death at the hands of the hero. In Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North, there are several instances of violent ends, yet through this meandering story the true sacrificial or redemptive nature of these deaths are as intertwined as the fates of the characters to the end of British Colonialism in Africa. The story takes place in the early part of the twentieth century as the British Empire begins to fade away from its Victorian Glory. At the stories climax, the nameless narrator is pondering ..."

Tags:colonialism, British, Africa, Victoria, history

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In this article, the writer notes that novels are usually thought of as descriptive mediums that tell stories, either from the perspective of one character or an omniscient third-person narrator. The writer then points out that both the novels, 'A Season of Migration to the North' by Tayeb Salih and 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' by Manuel Puig, are novels that also function as conversations, much like plays, where speech, particularly recollected memory and speech, form the primary focus of the plots. The writer discusses that the title of the 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' is a reference to a recollected and retold film beloved of one of the characters, not one of the actual protagonists. Further the writer notes that Salih's novel takes place primarily in retrospective, in the words of a first-person narrator discussing and comparing his memories with a fellow, sympathetic national.

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"Salih's novel takes place between two men whom are technically free, while Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman evolves as a dialogue between two men in prison. Yet the freedom these men obtain, intellectually, and in terms of shaking off of their previous misconceptions about what constitutes a good life, provide a far more liberating message than the chronicled struggles of Mustafa and his compatriots abroad. This is especially striking given the initially incommensurate perspectives of Puig's prisoners. In Kiss of the Spider Woman of the men, Molina is a homosexual who has been imprisoned for untoward acts towards young men. The other man, Valentin, is a revolutionary imprisoned by the government. But because they are forced, out of loneliness and desperation, to engage in humane dialogue with one another, these differences are broached."

Tags:narrator, speech, conversation, dialogue

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This essay discusses the following three novels: Tayeb Salih's 'Seasons of Migrations to the North', David Malouf's 'Remembering Babylon', and Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' . All of these novels reveal the shadow side of the human soul, the dark, forbidden side that most of us don't want to admit exists and show how it manifests in relationship to the unknown. When humans come into contact with something other than that which they know well, they often react out of fear which springs from the depths of their own hidden inner selves. Joseph Conrad's The Heart of Darkness is the classic on this theme to which the other two are compared. In these novels human life is represented as a duality hovering between light and darkness. All three writers use nature extensively to symbolize this duality. In these books most often nature is evil and dark, though now and then we catch a glimpse of beauty and light.

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"This study will explore the role that images of nature play in three novels of cultural conflict. Tayeb Salih's Seasons of Migrations to the North, and David Malouf's Remembering Babylon, will be discussed using Conrad's Heart of Darkness as the standard by which all such works are measured.In addition to being about clashing cultures, these novels are about the shadow side of the human soul, the dark, forbidden side that most of us don't want to admit exists and how it manifests in relationship to the unknown. When humans come into contact with something other than that which they know well, they often react out of fear which springs from the depths of their own hidden inner selves. Joseph Conrad's The Heart of Darkness is the classic on this theme. In these novels human life is represented as a duality hovering between light and darkness. All three writers use nature extensively to symbolize this duality. In these books most often nature is evil and dark, though now and then we catch a glimpse of beauty and light."

Tags:babylon, Conrad, darkness, David, heart, Joseph, Malouf, migrations, north, remembering, Salih, seasons, Tayeb

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This paper examines how in Chris Abani's "GraceLand", Tsitsi Dangarembga's "Nervous Conditions", Tayeb Salih's "Season of Migration to the North" and Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis", the combination of patriarchy and colonial rule limits the choices of women to two strikingly opposite sides, with no room for a comfortable middle ground. The paper also discusses how for women to desire gender equality is to embrace colonialism and Western ideals, and so they are expected to abide by oppressive and traditionalist rules in order to stay loyal to their countries and reject colonialism.

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"Popular attitudes about women are another way for men to assert themselves and their dominant position in society. In Nervous Conditions, Tambu struggles to be given permission just to attend school; as her brother tells her, "You can't study. Because you are a girl" (Dangarembga 21). His words echo those of their father, who discouraged Tambu from pursuing her dreams and advised her to embrace her expected feminine duties in the domestic sphere: "Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables" (Dangarembga 15). His implication is that school is useless for girls because it won't benefit their future husbands, and that the only purpose for women is to serve men. At the most extreme, men exercise their power over women by stripping them entirely of control in all areas of their lives, such as in Season of Migration to the North, where women are the property of men and have no rights of their own."

Tags:colonialism, tambu, Nyasha

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This paper examines how few topics capture the attention of academics and non-academics in quite the same way as the psyche of the modern man. That is to say, people in the contemporary age tend to see the world around them in ways that would have been utterly inconceivable to their forebears. With that in mind, the paper explores four literary works; Shakespeare's "Hamlet," Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Tayeb Salih's "Season of Migration to the North." The paper notes how each of them emphasizes a modern conception of man which places humankind at the center of the cosmos, thereby displacing God.

Tags:modern, man, literature

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The paper discusses how coming of age is not merely a personal struggle, defined by changes in one's body and the structure of one's social life. The paper explains that viewed from an international and multicultural perspective, coming of age is also defined by an adolescent's cultural and political context. In examining this topic, the paper also looks at Nahid Rachlin's memoir "Persian Girls," Mohsin Makhmalbaf's film "Khandahar," Tayeb Salih's novel "A Season of Migration to the North," Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" and the protagonist Jose of the film "Sugar Cane Alley."

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"For example, in her memoir Persian Girls, Nahid Rachlin depicts her young life in Iran as being defined by her gender and her culture's limiting view of femininity, despite the fact that Rachlin was born during the pro-Western reign of the Shah. It is not simply in the fundamentalist-controlled regimes, like Taliban-ruled Afghanistan that female oppression can occur. The horrors of this regime are compellingly depicted in the educational scenes of Mohsin Makhmalbaf's film "Khandahar" where young girls are told that they can no longer study, and upon puberty they must veil their faces, equating a silencing of the self with becoming a woman."

Tags:culture, Rachlin, Hosseini, Salih, femininity, independence, adulthood