The Binary Identity of Mustafa Sa’eed in the Postcolonial Novel “Season of Migration to the North”

Abstract

The novel is one of the most powerful tools used by the west to distort the real image of the orients and stereotype it as well as legitimate their colonial presence in the east. Additionally, it leads to fracture the identity of the orients. This project uses the critical postcolonial theory to sheds light on the protagonist of Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North Mustafa Sa’eed. The paper concludes that the issue of identity concerning Mustafa Sa’eed becomes ambivalent, oscillating and unstable. Moreover, it is affected by the western ideologies, which makes him live in a third space between the two cultures of the eastern and western. Finally, he becomes hybrid.