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Women and the Female Body as Portrayed in Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

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revenge against his aggressors. Unfortunately, the victims who fall prey to this violence are women whose bodies are considered as worthless. In England, Mustafa finds that he can lure the  English women with his English ways and when treating them violently and worthless finds an easy and callous way to have revenge against the imperialism which has led to the  oppression of his own people. When he meets Jean Morris and finds she is more aggressive than he, he kills her but then is given a light sentence as the  courts believe his anger against the English is partially justified. Back in his village, Mustafas wife, Hosna Bint Mahmoud becomes another worthless victim whose violent death was blamed on her  foreign influence. The narrator himself finds that his love for her was actually hatred and he joins with Mustafa and the villagers in their anger and desire for revenge.  Tayeb Salihs 1970 work "Season of Migration to the North" tells a story about the dark side of imperialism and the growing hatred and  resentment villagers near the Nile have of England and its people. The work was originally written in Arabic and has since been translated a number of times, the most often  quoted is the translation done by Denys Johnson Davies in 1989, and English readers feel that in many instances flavors of the nuance of different scenes and the language  may have been lost in the translation. Despite this however, the book becomes more than the traditional imagery used in many anti-imperial works such as black against white but instead  uses sexuality as a new dark image of colonization (Linenoise, 2002). The female body and female sexuality in "Season of Migration to the