Geo-spatial politics and the trope of migration in Tayeb Salih'sSeason of Migration to the North

‘I Choose Life’: Negation, Agency, and Utopian Hope in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North.

“…The aim of this article is threefold: first, to examine Salih's critique of female negation and male hegemony; second, to highlight Salih's rejection of passivity and fatalism-how both undermine individual and collective agency and reinforce female negation; and, lastly, to consider Salih's postcolonial utopianism and privileging of autonomy. Therefore, my analysis of Season deviates from the prevailing scholarship on the character of Mustafa (See Harlow 1985;Abbas 1985;Davidson 1989;Geesey 1997;Al-Halool 2008;Tsaaior 2009;Osei-Nywame 2009;Velez 2010;Rajiva 2016;Murad 2018;Adeaga 2021) to focus first on Hosna and then the unnamed narrator, a British-educated Sudanese and returnee like Mustafa. Critics have paid little attention to Hosna and the radical agency she evinces by taking her husband's life and hers.…”