Abstract
During the colonial period, British colonizers marched to the Third and Fourth World countries to exploit them for the purpose of colonizers’ economical uplifts. Therefore, colonizers internalized their own superiority over the inferior colonized countries by devaluing their culture, race, language, and identity in order to pillage the colonized. As the result, many of the colonized individuals migrated to the developed countries to educate there in order to save their motherlands. However, facing with an alien culture and language caused the colonized to have a merged and dual identity. In this regard, Season of Migration to the North, written in 1969 by Tayeb Salih, is the story of an intelligent colonized who sacrifices his own life and identity to take revenge on colonizers by traveling to London and educating there. But, Mustafa Saeed, the intelligent colonized, loses his own identity in this way and finally disappears as the victim of this colonizing strategy’s consequence, merged- or lost-identity. Therefore, in this study, it has been tried to investigate Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North through Homi K. Bhabha’s theories of “Hybridity” and “Ambivalence” as the causes of merged- and even lost-identity in post-colonial discourse.
Highlights
Postcolonialism and the Concepts of “Hybridity” and “Ambivalence”Postcolonial criticism started after World War II, in the early 1990’s, and after the debacle of colonial regimes in the colonized countries
British colonizers marched to the Third and Fourth World countries to exploit them for the purpose of colonizers’ economical uplifts. Colonizers internalized their own superiority over the inferior colonized countries by devaluing their culture, race, language, and identity in order to pillage the colonized
The narrator speaks about its coldness because he believes in the warmth of the ‘South’ as his homeland and Mustafa believes in the coldness of the ‘North’ as a predatory colonizer who has stolen the culture and identity of him and his motherland’s, he hates it in the bottom of his heart and wants to revenge
Summary
Postcolonial criticism started after World War II, in the early 1990’s, and after the debacle of colonial regimes in the colonized countries. The colonized intelligentsia who leave their motherlands are facing with such problems of identity crisis They travel to the colonizer countries because those countries are more developed and they want to learn there in order to save their motherlands by bringing high education with themselves to their own lands. What is left for an intelligent in the foreign lands is a fragmented self In this regard, what can be exploited is that; any individual facing with another culture is under the impact of losing his/ her real and pure identity as the result of hybridity and ambivalence. In Tayeb Salih’s postcolonial novel, Mustafa Saeed, a colonized who has lived almost all his life in the colonizer’s countries to take revenge on them uses colonizer’s simulation strategy in order to ruin them, he loses his own identity and the struggle of vacillation between two opposite identities leads him to his downfall. In this study it has been tried to investigate the role of in-between life in creating or losing the individuals’ identity
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