Rebuilding nationality

Hani Qubilat

Many inventions based on an imaginative idea; flying for example based upon the crazy and imaginative idea of (Abbas Ben Fernas). Not just the inventions, but also nationality construction or any other cultural issue starts with imaginary thoughts of politician or an artist in a fiction or non-fiction literary work.
Indigenous national identity like a building, it may suffer from many natural or artificial aspects that influence it negatively. Therefore it needs to rebuild again. This is an inevitable outcome from the interrogation and investigation of the issue of nationality, but what we have in reality is different.
In our society, we don't accept new ideas; especially those imaginative ideas. Most people don't know that every real change or new ideas start as imaginative. Some real and serious literary works may lead to the change that we need.
Season of Migration to The North by Tayeb Salih gives us an individual strategy of decolonization. This literary work may open a new gate of debate about decolonization strategies nowadays. In the novel, Said Mahran takes upon his shoulders, single handedly, to invade Britain through raping high class and prestigious women as a kind of revenge; because Britain once colonized Sudan.
Moreover, Such idea comes as a reaction of a pretexts written about eastern countries in European literature. Edward Said in his most important two books Culture and Imperialism and Orientalism exposes the western discourse in most of their literary works especially novels. Accordingly, this may leads to obtain and promote the idea of nationality building, in literature, schooling, religion, or any other field of life in our Arab countries in order to achieve the unity.