Season of Migration

Abstract

Resulting from the contact with the English otherness, Season of migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, published more than half a century ago, continues to raise reflections on a subject that causes conflicts in the world today, the migration of peoples. Representing in an intense way the intricate relationship Colony versus Metropolis, the author shows us another version of the story that, for so long, was under control of the colonizer. Considered one of the most important Arab works of the twentieth century, it was translated into Portuguese for the first time in 2004, and it is the only Arabic text, except for the Arabian Nights, to be republished in Brazil. Given the importance of the novel for both the Arabic Literature and the post-colonial studies, in the present work we propose an approach that not only presents the text as a work that denounces the English colonial exploration, but also as an counter-discourse in the dialogical process in the East-West relations. Finally, we will analyze some excerpts of the text that we consider expressive and that distinguishes it as an avant-garde work.