Sa’eed describes these women as his “prey,” as targets which he deviously and intentionally seduces in order to wield power over them. Mustafa Sa’eed’s relationships with his various mistresses in England are characterized by misogyny and violence. In its portrayal of relationships between men and women, the novel suggests that-whether in Sudan or England-women everywhere are the frequently victims of violent misogyny. And in the small village of Wad Hamid in Sudan, where the novel’s unnamed narrator encounters Sa’eed, tragedy strikes when Sa’eed’s widow Hosna is forced to marry a man much older than herself. During his time in England, the Sudanese protagonist of the novel, Mustafa Sa’eed, has a number of relationships with English women that end in death or murder. In Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North, relations between men and women are characterized by violence.
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