موسم الهجرة إلى الشمال Mawsim al-Hiǧra ilā ash-Shamāl.
Translator
Denys Johnson-Davies
Country
Sudan
Language
Arabic
Publication date
1966
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
169 pp (Heinemann edition)
ISBN
0-435-90630-5
Season of Migration to the North (Arabic: موسم الهجرة إلى الشمالMawsim al-Hijrah ilâ al-Shamâl) is a classic postcolonial Arabic novel by the Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih, published in 1966; it is the novel for which he is best known. It was first published in the Beirut journal Hiwâr. The main concern of the novel is with the impact of British colonialism and European modernity on rural African societies in general and Sudanese culture and identity in particular.[1] His novel reflects the conflicts of modern Sudan and depicts the brutal history of European colonialism as shaping the reality of contemporary Sudanese society. Damascus-based Arab Literary Academy named it one of the best novels in Arabic of the twentieth century. Mawsim al-Hijrah ilâ al-Shamâl is considered to be an important turning point in the development of postcolonial narratives that focus on the encounter between East and West.[1]
The novel has been translated into more than twenty languages.[2] Salih was fluent in both English and Arabic, but chose to pen this novel in Arabic.[3] The English translation by Denys Johnson-Davies was published in 1969 as part of the influential Heinemann African Writers Series. The novel is a counternarrative to Heart of Darkness. It was described by Edward Said as one of the six great novels in Arabic literature.[4] In 2001 it was selected by a panel of Arab writers and critics as the most important Arab novel of the twentieth century.[5]
^ abWaïl S. Hassan, Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction, Syracuse University Press, 2003.
^Johnson-Davies, Memories In Translation: A Life Between The Lines Of Arabic Literature, p 85
^GradeSaver. "Season of Migration to the North Study Guide". www.gradesaver.com. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
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