Egyptian nationalism treated the Sudan as a proof of national virility

Evidence

The Sudan was a testing ground for Egyptian virility, for the individuals who had shed their blood there (fighting the Sudanese), and for the entire national project of independence at a time when the dominant worldview insisted that independent, self-reliant nations were by definition also regional, if not global, conquerors. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 726

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how anti-colonial nationalists adopted the colonizer’s logic of conquest-virility — a claim that Egypt’s bid for self-rule required possessing Sudan, where Britain ruled Egypt partly to hold Sudan. Echo of the ‘coloniality within anti-colonialism’ trope.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader African-coloniality framework: Egyptians sought independence by retaining a sub-empire over Sudanese, nesting imperial logics. — connects to: Conquering the Sudan gave Egyptians a stronger sense of nation — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 127; Egyptian nationalism was defined against the Sudanese as racial other; Sudan served as the foil that defined Egyptian national identity (+28 more)
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 726

Broader Connections

• Egyptian nationalists redefined the Sudan as part of Egypt to mask colonial domination #expands (0.80)
• Egyptian nationalists adopted corporeal metaphors for the loss of the Sudan #corroborates (0.70)