Abstract
Abstract: In this piece, I consider how Tayeb Salih's novel Season of Migration to the North uses the image of Othello from Shakespeare's eponymous play to critique colonial desire and self-making. Appropriating José Esteban Muñoz's theory of disidentification and Homi Bhabha's concept of mimicry, I argue that Season of Migration to the North models in its depictions of Mustafa Sa'eed's sexual carnage and iconographic self-making a disidentificatory critique of Othello 's sense of racial tragedy.
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