Feature: Why Is Seasons of Migration to the North a Masterpiece of 20th Century Arab Fiction?

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Presenter: Malek Rasamny

Delivered: NYC on December 13, 2015

Since reading “Seasons of Migration to the North” by Tayeb Salih in high school I realized the book was a masterpiece, and this afikra feature seeks to uncover exaclty why through an intensive examination of the themes, language and context of the book.

Sources & Future References

• Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih | Goodreads

• The Development of Contemporary Literature in Sudan l JSTOR

• Representations of Identity In Three Modern Arabic Novels

• Underappreciated: Sudanese Author Tayeb Salih | The Leonard Lopate Show | WNYC

• A Dream of Reconciliation Between Tradition and Liberalism, by Dr. Sameer M. Al-Shraah

• Reflections on Exile and Other Essays by Edward W. Said | Goodreads

• Who Am I, Without Exile? by Mahmoud Darwish | Poetry Foundation

• Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon l Amazon.com

• Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt ( Cambridge University Press, 1988)

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