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    Master Thesis
    Salih'in Kuzeye Göç Mevsimi ve Farah'ın Haritaları adlı romanlarında kadın bedeninin anavatana dönüşümü
    (2016) Kakakhan, Mohammed Burhan; Morgan, Emel Taştekin
    This thesis presents a reading of twentieth century Arab-African literature to show that postcolonial writers have implemented various strategies to complicate the concept of nation. Any notion of nation is doubtlessly connected to the quest of cultural identity; therefore, the quest for cultural identity in the novels of two prominent African writers, Somali Nuruddin Farah's Maps and Sudanese Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North, will be examined. My examination focuses on the representation of female bodies in both novels. The relationship between the protagonists of the mentioned novels and female body depict either the protagonists' struggle to assert an identity as in Maps or take revenge back upon the colonizer's land as in Season. Thus, this thesis aims to shed light on the way the body is perceived through biopolitical terms. I argue that in both novels, it is the female body that receives all the atrocities and simultaneously turns into the ―mother country‖ for the male protagonist.