Postcolonial Analysis Of The Representation Of The East And West In Justine And Season Of Migration To The North

MA Fall 2021 Cairo University Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts Comparative Literature Prof. Evine Hammamsy Term Paper December 31, 2021 Postcolonial Analysis of the Representation of the East and West in Lawrence Durrells Justine and Tayeb Salehs Season of Migration to the North: A Comparative Study By Sarah GalalAbstract: Lawrence Durrells Justine and Tayeb Salehs Season of Migration to the North are two novels that can be read from a postcolonialist perspective. While Justine, written by a British author living in Egypt during the British colonization, tells the story of Alexandria, Season of Migration to the North is about the horrors of the British colonization and how it affected the culture and identity of the Sudanese people. Naturally, both novels depict the conflict between the East and the West in very different ways. This paper will make use of Edward Saids Orientalism and Homi K. Bhabhas theories of hybridity, ambivalence, and Third Space in order to explore how the binary opposition of the East and the West is represented in the two novels. This paper will conduct a postcolonial analysis of Lawrence Durrells Justine and Tayeb Salehs Season of Migration to the North in order to