Résumé:
This dissertation aims at exploring the Afro-Arabs constant search for identity in Tayeb
Salih’s Season of Migration to the North. The selected novel addresses the existential anxiety
of the individuals who find themselves torn between two worlds; suffering from doubleness.
Mustapha Sa’eed, a Sudanese character who was deeply affected by his experience in the
northern journey, developed a sense of loss due to his fragmented identity. In this
multidisciplinary endeavor, we are interested in exhibiting the syndromes of hybridity that
plagued and troubled the protagonist’s life. The dissertation examines Salih’s novel from a
thematic angle. The work tries first to shed light on a general background of the field of
postcolonialism, and highlighting its relationship with identity. Besides, in the second chapter,
we attempt to see how Salih traced the protagonist journey as an alienated Other. The third
chapter examines the psychology of the oppressed native, namely the African individual who
suffers from in- betweeness in his homeland. The study argues that denying one’s past leads
to self struggle. Yet getting the best of other cultures and preserving the native roots is crucial
for achieving a strong identity. As an African novelist, Salih tries to illustrate the power of
acknowledgement of the past in healing the future through exhibiting the impetus of the
Western culture and its paramounty in the modern world.
