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This 3 page paper discusses the function of women in Tayeb Salih's novel "Season of Migration to the North." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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been freed. It has been praised by critics, but reviews from ordinary readers seem to be less enthusiastic. Most readers agree, however, that it is at least worth taking a
look. This paper considers the position of women in the novel. Discussion The quotation " Even we who were her contemporaries... look at her today and see her as something
new-like a city woman, if you know what I mean" is an excellent introduction to women in the book: they are something new and different, and they have the narrator
puzzled, as indicated by his "if you know what I mean" comment. The protagonist of the book is a mysterious man named Mustafa Saeed, whose life parallels that of the
narrator: they were both born in the Sudan, both travel to England for advanced study and then return home. But we learn what we know of Saeeds life from the
narrator, who tells us both Saeeds story and his own. Saeed is brilliant, something he discovered when he was schooled by the British (Gagiano). He describes himself as having
a mind "like a sharp knife, cutting with cold effectiveness" (Salih, 1970, p. 22). He is so advanced that hes sent to school, first to Cairo, then on to London,
where he is given the nickname "the black Englishman" (Salih, 1970, p. 54). In London, however, Saeed becomes something dangerous and disturbing: a sexual predator, "setting up as his lair
a room seductively decorated with ersatz African paraphernalia" (Gagiano). He is apparently a master seducer and Englishwomen succumb to him quite quickly and easily, although three of his conquests eventually
commit suicide (Gagiano). Saeed marries a fourth, Jean Morris, and subsequently kills her; Gagiano describes her as "seductive" and says that she taunted and humiliated Saeed during their "stormy marriage"
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