Recommended Reading/Browsing:

Sudan

• Sudan: Encyclopedia Britannica (HSU users only) | Wikipedia | CIA World Factbook

Tayeb Salih

• Biographies and profiles: Wikipedia | Words Without Borders | The Guardian (London)
• Criticism:
  • Eiman El-Hour, "The Development of Contemporary Literature in Sudan" (Research in African Literatures 28:3 [1997])
  • Brian Gibson, "An Island Unto Himself? Masculinity in Season of Migration to the North" (Jouvert 7:1 [2002])
  • Patricia Geesey, "Cultural Hybridity and Contaminatioin in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North" (Research in African Literatures 28:3 (1997))
  • Saree Makdisi, "The Empire Renarrated: Season of Migration to the North and the Reinvention of the Present" (Critical Inquiry 18:4 (Summer 1992))
• The Season of Migration to the North page at NYRB Press includes a downloadable "Reading Group Guide"