"season of migration"
When I first started reading Season of Migration to the North, I wondered why the narrator was only speaking of Mustafa Sa'eed and nothing of himself. I have realized that a main point in this book is Mustafa Sa'eed’s domination the white world, especially women. Mustafa was empty in the Arab world. He could not become a part of his culture because he was not even a part of himself. The only way for him to become part of his homeland was superficially. This explains the reason he embodied "Orientalism" when he went North. It was easy for Mustafa to fit the lies the Northerners had made about Arabs. This embodiment of the "Orient" was made possible through the stereotypes the Northerners had about the Arab world. The stereotypes that the Northerners created came back to them in a negative way. Mustafa was able to embody the stereotypes and get revenge on the former colonizers. He seem to hit the ex-colonizers where it hurt most, the women. In the eyes of the colonizers he was raping their most sacred element, which is what the colonizers did to the Arab world as well. The colonizers changed the Arabs way of life, the language, the countryside, the women, etc (some of the most sacred things). So in a way
marriage and a quiet village once again welling up and impelling him towards, well, bad things? Not evil, infected these women, yet he is the one that plays into their image of them and uses it to his advantage.
Some topics in this essay:
Mustafa Sa'eed,
Arabia' Page,
Mustafa Mustafa,
Northerners Arab,
Seymour Suddenly,
Effendi Majoub,
Whenever Mustafa,
Sa'eed African,
Migration North,
Mustafa Sa'eed’s,
mustafa sa'eed,
european women,
women mustafa,
arab world,
migration north,
season migration north,
season migration,
feel conquered world,
stereotypes northerners,
reverse colonization,
women plays,
narrator tells,
city changed woman,
european women mustafa,
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Approximate Word count = 2060
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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