Postcolonial theory, Tayeb Saleh, Edward Said, Homi Baba, orientalism, hybrids, colonizers and Colonized.

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Department of Arabic Language - Kuwait University

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Tayeb Salih's novel Season of Immigration to the North is one of the most Arabic novels which have been reviewed by critical and analytical articles because of its textual abilities. The novel approaches many topics touching problematic political and socio-cultural issues that have controlled the Arab World until today. This study aims to analyze the novel according to the concepts of "Post-Colonial Theory", and the images of colonizer and colonized and viewing how each of them seeing each other depending on American Palestinian critic Edward Said's approach of Orientalism. In addition to that, this study searches the influence of Western culture on the novel characters like: Mostafa Said, the narrator, and Hosna bent Mahmoud benefiting from Homi Bhabha's concept of 'Hybridity'. The present study starts first with a historical introduction of "post-Colonial Theory" and its important concepts. Then, a comparison between the novel and Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness takes place. After that, the concepts of 'Orientalism', 'Occidentalism', and 'hybridity' are considered as my framework to analyze the novel's characters. In the final part, I link between Post-colonial theory and Feminism third movement's efforts by analyzing Sudanese woman identity through showing the violent reaction of Hosna bent Mahmoud.

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