Alienation and identity quest as effects of exile, dislocation and homelessness : the case of Tayeb Salih and V S Naipaul

Abstract EN

One of the key concerns of post-colonial literature has been with exile and dislocation as direct effects of migration.

The origin of this movement with its drastic effects is the displacement of the colonized due to colonial occupation, which in its turn leads to disenchantment, despair and alienation.

This paper tries to lay emphasis on the way space determines the relation between the Self and the Other, and how each protagonist in Tayeb Salih's Season of migration to the north and V S Naipaul's The mimic men views his (colonial) past and present within complicated diasporic settings.