Essays on Waiting For The Barbarians
Season of Migration to the North fully locates Mustafa and the narrator’s tale in a liminal space of mediation between cultures, that denies coercive assimilation into either side of the East/West binary. Upon departing Mustafa’s hidden room, the narrator says of aspect of his narrative: “I left him talking and went out. I did not...
Reflecting on Arabic modes of storytelling woven into Salih’s prose, Benita Parry’s Reflections on the Excess of Empire (2005) accentuates the coexisting stories of Mustafa and the narrator as “told in the hieratic oral style of a hakawati”, in which the narrative mimics the mu-cirada literary form “meaning opposition or contradiction in which at least...
Answer BOTH of the following questions in a coherent essay with a comparative perspective and specific textual examples. 1. In what ways and to what extent are the main characters of Waiting for the Barbarians, By Night in Chile, and The City of Angels complicit with the oppressive regimes in which they live or have...
