Journal article
White Thighs: A Question of Fate and Sexual Politics in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North
EAPSU onlinee: A Journal of Critical and Creative Work, Vol.5, pp.22-32
Autumn 2008
Abstract
In January 1914 the French aviator Marc Pourpe successfully completed the first flight from Cairo to Khartoum. Waiting for him on his desert landing was the Governor General of the Sudan, Sir Reginald Wingate, and several government officials. Wingate greeted Marc Pourpe enthusiastically with these words:
Monsieur, I am as excited and worked up as on the day of the battle of Omdurman (1898)1. Permit me to congratulate you in the name of everyone here and to thank you for coming such a distance. I have conquered the Sudan step by step, in the desert you have just easily crossed. I do not hide from you the emotions which fill me, which fills us all to see today the final word in civilization: a French plane. (Lufbery 17).
The British governor had good cause to feel superior. In 1914 Western powers claimed “85 percent of the earth as colonies, protectorates, dependencies, dominions and commonwealths” (Said 8), and this latest show of skilled technology was only a reaffirmation of the superiority of the West over the rest of the world. [Opening paragraphs]
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- Title
- White Thighs: A Question of Fate and Sexual Politics in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North
- Creators
- Sheila Sandapen - Immaculata University
- Publication Details
- EAPSU onlinee: A Journal of Critical and Creative Work, Vol.5, pp.22-32
- Publisher
- EAPSU (English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities)
- Number of pages
- 11
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- English and Philosophy
- Identifiers
- 991021864211104721