Double Blackness in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North: A Critical Discourse Analysis

This paper examines the idea of double blackness and its role in constructing Sudanese social hierarchy Tayeb Salih’s Season Migration to North (1969). The article draws on several core concepts postcolonial anthropological studies, including race, culture, ethnicity, Otherness. Instead tackling novel from traditional perspective, adds an lens novel’s dynamics shed light some neglected aspects like multiplicity racial identity subsequent self-awareness. discussion we present this poses problematic questions about meaning presence multiple layers Black Self society. Away implications novel, argue that Salih makes use colonial discourse self vs other holds a mirror up society itself. shows even among African communities where is norm, race remain major triggers polemics controversies very similar manner what occurs Western contexts. new reading propose one considers ways which characters “African” origin endure call “double Blackness” — degradation experienced through both discourses racism stratification.