Interdisciplinary Social Research

The purpose of this study is to look at the novel Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih by applying the Cultural Criticism- looking at the novel as a creative text, but beyond the aesthetic storytelling, the cultural and ideological frameworks underlying the modern Arabic discourse. This study is premised on the assumption that the novel is an open cultural dialogue which is a conflict of identity between the East and the West, the conflict between self and other in the context of the postcolonial society. Theoretical framework covers important terms language like cultural criticism and identity, and the applied part explains the novel in terms of four primary dimensions, namely; identity and selfhood, spatial symbolism, image of women and environmental structure in an attempt to identify how these dimensions lead to the creation of cultural meaning throughout the text. The results illustrate that Tayeb Salih manages to turn his story into the polyphonic space that integrates the aesthetic and intellectual resorting to stating the crisis of the Arab man trapped between the belonging and the alienation. In this way, Season of Migration to the North is an important paradigm of Arabic literature that could pose questions to itself and its cultural roots, putting them through the prism of the reality of the modern world.