Entre o norte e o sul: duas experiências de migração em Tempo de migrar para o norte, de Tayeb Salih

Abstract

In Season of Migrating to the North (1966), Tayeb Salih presents the narrative of two destinies connected to one another by the migrational movement resulting from the British colonization in Sudan: Mustafa Said’s destiny and the romance narrator’s destiny, who is not named. These are very opposed migrational experiences with tragic outcomes, not just from a standpoint of the characters’ analysis, but also for understanding the colonization process that caused deep and devastating scars in the colony. The selected cutout for this analysis is based on exploring the migrational experiences narrated by both characters, focusing on the metonymy of presence, presented by Homi K. Bhabha, which leads us to reflect about the British colonialism – in this analysis specifically the colonialism in Sudan, considering the cutout established here – and its consequeces.