Postcolonial Analysis of Cultural Conflicts inTayeb Saleh's Season of Migration to The North

Abstract

During During and after the colonial cultural encounter, and the migratory processes that the world has witnessed, key concepts of postcolonial theory such the concept of ' hybridity' is conceived of as being the dominant point of colonial and postcolonial subjects. Hybridity will in general expose the arrangement of binaries,which is mistakenly expanded in the representation of the 'orient' and the 'Occident'. Tayeb Saleh's Season of Migration to the North is one of the novels used to represent hybridity; it is a story of Mustafa Sa'eed a Sudanese who lived his childhood in Sudan, then he moved to London to complete his higher education Soo at the end he becomes a hybrid, he lives in a culture between the oriental and the occidental cultures. Mustafa's dislocation in England and his broad contact with the European women have made him a man of two identities and cultures, he is trapped between two cultures which led to his loss of self and tragic end. In no manner the hybridizing process has turned characters into strangers and alientedpeople ; being in the English metropolis or in their own homes specially after their return to Africa. On this basis, this study aims at exploring a postcolonial reading of cultural hybridity and investigates it aspects using a postcolonial theory. In addition to the examination of 'binaries' and 'Orientalism' in the novel.