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Başka Bir Yere Ait Olmak: Tayep Salih’in Kuzeye Göç Mevsimi adlı Eserindeki Hayalet Kimlik

Year 2022, Volume: 10 Issue: 2, 501 - 508, 28.10.2022
https://doi.org/10.18795/gumusmaviatlas.1127957

Abstract

Kuzeye Göç Mevsimi adlı eserinde Sudanlı yazar Tayep Salih postkolonyal sömürgeciliğin Sudan üzerindeki yansımalarını canlı bir şekilde tasvir etmiştir. Romanın ana karakteri Mustafa Sa’eed’in gerek anayurdundan Londra’ya gerekse Londra’dan anayurduna döndüğünde yaşadığı deneyimleri yansıtan roman, postkolonyal sömürgecilik kapsamında Mustafa Sa’eed’i hayalet kimlik sahibi biri olarak gösterir. Bu roman, Mustafa’nın cinsellik performansının kendisinin, sömürgeciliği tersine çevirmek için İngiliz kadınlarına yönelik bir cinsel şiddet biçimi haline gelme biçimlerine dair benzersiz bir anlayış sunar. Başka bir deyişle, romanın ana karakteri Mustafa, sömürgeciliği yansıtmak ve sömürge projesinin içerdiği hegemonyaları yeniden yazmak için kendi bedenselliğinden ve erkekliğinden yararlanarak İngiliz kadınlarına sadistçe intikam eylemleri sunar. Bu, romanın işlediği bir liste oluşturur ve şiddet, cinsellik, toplumsal cinsiyet, sömürgecilik, erkek hegemonyasının kavşak noktası bu çalışmanın ana kaygısı haline gelir. Böylelikle, Tayep Salih’in Kuzeye Göç Mevsimi’nin romanının okuyucularına önerdiği ahlaki ders, tüm kültürel deneyimlerin ve biçimlerin ikiliğinin ve karışımının, sömürge zihniyetine ait kültürel kirlenmeye çare olduğudur. Bu noktada, Tayep Salih romanında hem yeni bir kültür hem de gerçeği deneyimlemenin ve görmenin yeni yollarını inşa etmek için büyük bir çaba harcar.

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Belonging Elsewhere: A Phantom Identity in Tayep Salih’s Season of Migration to the North

Year 2022, Volume: 10 Issue: 2, 501 - 508, 28.10.2022
https://doi.org/10.18795/gumusmaviatlas.1127957

Abstract

In Season of Migration to the North, Sudanese novelist Tayep Salih depicts a vivid image of the entanglement of postcolonial Sudan. Reflecting the experiences of Mustafa Sa’eed, the major character, from homeland to London and back to homeland again, the novel also reveals how the colonial project renders Mustafa Sa’eed as a being with a phantom identity in a postcolonial context. This novel offers a unique insight into the ways in which Mustafa’s performance of sexuality itself becomes a form of sexual violence against the English women in order to reverse colonialism. In other words, Mustafa presents sadistic acts of revenge upon the English women, taking advantage of his corporeality and masculinity in an attempt to reflect colonialism and to rewrite the hegemonies included in the colonial project. This creates a list through which the novel operates and the crossroads of violence, sexuality, gender, colonialism, male hegemony come to be the main concern of this work. Then, the moral lesson of Tayep Salih’s Season of Migration to the North is proposed for the readers of his novel is that the dualism and amalgam of all cultural experiences and forms provides a remedy for cultural contamination, which belongs to colonial mentality. At this point, Tayep Salih in his novel makes a great effort to construct both a new culture and new ways of experiencing and seeing the reality.

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  • Fanon, F. (1978). The Wretched of the Earth. (C. Farrington, Trans.). Grove Press. (Original work published 1963).
  • Huntington, S. (1996). The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks.
  • Kristeva, J. (1991). Strangers to Ourselves. (L. S. Roudiez, Trans.). Columbia University Press. (Original work published 1988).
  • Marcuse, H. (1955). Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud. Vintage Books.
  • Rogers, R. (1970). The Double in Literature, Wayne State University Press.
  • Said, E. (1979). Orientalism. Vintage Books.
  • Salih, T. (1969). Season of Migration to the North. (D. J. Davies, Trans). Heinemann Press. (Original work published 1966).
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Primary Language English
Journal Section Research Article
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Sezgi Öztop Haner 0000-0001-9687-5159

Publication Date October 28, 2022
Submission Date June 8, 2022
Published in Issue Year 2022 Volume: 10 Issue: 2

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APA Öztop Haner, S. (2022). Belonging Elsewhere: A Phantom Identity in Tayep Salih’s Season of Migration to the North. Mavi Atlas, 10(2), 501-508. https://doi.org/10.18795/gumusmaviatlas.1127957

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