Alï abd al-Latïf’s erasure mirrored the caricature of Sudanese in Egyptian culture.

Evidence

What my study challenges in Said’s work is the idea that Egyptians suffered in silence, the idea that many in Egypt did not themselves engage in a discourse of stereotypes and fantasies about the Sudan specifically and Africa in general, a discourse that paralleled Orientalist imagery. Although he wrote many pages on the objectification of Egypt in European literature, Said did not include in Orientalism a single sample of Egyptian literature or a discussion of Egyptians’ long history of creative and eventually successful response to the British occupation. Even had he included such material, Said would have had to address other levels of often contradictory discourse, particularly in reference to the Sudan. As Ania Loomba writes, “‘Colonialism’ is not just something that happens from outside a country or a people, not just something that operates with the collusion of forces inside, but a version of it can be duplicated from within.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 75 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptian nationalism was defined against the Sudanese as racial other; The Mahdist rebellion forced Egyptian satirists to redraw Sudanese images; Egyptian cultural productions erased Sudan’s distinctness by depicting it as Egypt’s backyard (+6 more)

Related

• Sudanese characters in Egyptian drama drew on stereo types from the 1870s. (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian cultural productions erased Sudan’s distinctness by depicting it as Egypt’s backyard (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist-style stereotypes about Sudan and Africa. (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced stereotypes about Sudan paralleling Orientalist imagery (similarity 0.89)
• Sudanese slaves in Egypt were caricatured as cartoons and comic characters (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalists deployed racial stereotypes about Sudanese domestics (similarity 0.86)
• Sudanese caricatures in Egyptian popular culture coincided with Sudanese anti-British revolt (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptians learned empire by drawing sharper distinctions from Sudan (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian cultural nationalism modernized its own image but kept black Sudanese stereotypes frozen. (similarity 0.86)
• Mubärak paralleled African experiences of being stared at with Egyptians in Europe (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian theater stereotyped Sudanese as undisciplined and libidinous (similarity 0.85)
• Sudanese stereotypes in Egyptian media remained unchanged over four decades of turmoil. (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian anti-Sudanese stereotypes were replaced by silencing Sudanese self-assertion (similarity 0.85)
• Racial stereotypes of Sudanese remained unchanged across a century of colonial politics. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist-style stereotypes about Sudan and Africa. #corroborates (0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 75
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced stereotypes about Sudan paralleling Orientalist imagery #corroborates (0.70)
• Sudanese characters in Egyptian realist drama remained stereotyped where Egyptian characters gained depth #expands (0.60)
• Sudanese slaves in Egypt were caricatured as cartoons and comic characters #exemplifies (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 787