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This is a 5 page paper on women and the female body in Tayeb Salih’s “Season of Migration to the North”. Tayeb Salih’s “Season of Migration to the North” tells the story of man’s intertwining hate, violence, desires and need for revenge against his aggressors. Unfortunately, the victims who fall prey to this violence are women whose bodies are considered as worthless. In England, Mustafa finds that he can lure the English women with his English ways and when treating them violently and worthless finds an easy and callous way to have revenge against the imperialism which has led to the oppression of his own people. When he meets Jean Morris and finds she is more aggressive than he, he kills her but then is given a light sentence as the courts believe his anger against the English is partially justified. Back in his village, Mustafa’s wife, Hosna Bint Mahmoud becomes another worthless victim whose violent death was blamed on her foreign influence. The narrator himself finds that his love for her was actually hatred and he joins with Mustafa and the villagers in their anger and desire for revenge.
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revenge against his aggressors. Unfortunately, the victims who fall prey to this violence are women whose bodies are considered as worthless. In England, Mustafa finds that he can lure the
English women with his English ways and when treating them violently and worthless finds an easy and callous way to have revenge against the imperialism which has led to the
oppression of his own people. When he meets Jean Morris and finds she is more aggressive than he, he kills her but then is given a light sentence as the
courts believe his anger against the English is partially justified. Back in his village, Mustafas wife, Hosna Bint Mahmoud becomes another worthless victim whose violent death was blamed on her
foreign influence. The narrator himself finds that his love for her was actually hatred and he joins with Mustafa and the villagers in their anger and desire for revenge.
Tayeb Salihs 1970 work "Season of Migration to the North" tells a story about the dark side of imperialism and the growing hatred and
resentment villagers near the Nile have of England and its people. The work was originally written in Arabic and has since been translated a number of times, the most often
quoted is the translation done by Denys Johnson Davies in 1989, and English readers feel that in many instances flavors of the nuance of different scenes and the language
may have been lost in the translation. Despite this however, the book becomes more than the traditional imagery used in many anti-imperial works such as black against white but instead
uses sexuality as a new dark image of colonization (Linenoise, 2002). The female body and female sexuality in "Season of Migration to the
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