The image of women is a cross between East and West in the novel “Season of Migration to the North” by Tayeb Salih, a cultural critical study

Abstract

The study aims to reveal the image of women and their models and the human, social, cultural and civilizational issues and manifestations that this image raises in a great writer and novelist who witnessed the experience of belonging to the East and read the event of alienation in the West. He is considered one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century, namely “Tayeb Salih”, through his significant novel model represented in his famous novel “Season of Migration to the North” by presenting two female models, each of which belongs to two different cultures: the sadistic wife represented by the character of “Jane Winifred Morris” from Western culture, and the defiant widow represented by the character of “Hasna bint Mahmoud” from Eastern culture. The study used the cultural criticism approach to trace the most important cultural signs included in the image of women within the text, and to link those signs to their cultural connotations outside the text. One of the most prominent results reached by the study is the difference in the human contents presented by the female model in both cultures, according to the difference in the social, cultural and political values ​​from which both female models draw, as each one raised issues, pains, disappointments, strengths and weaknesses that differed from the other.