Egyptian nationalist elites reproduced imperial language themselves

Evidence

Here, after all, were people once considered a subject population, a people who, after 1884, had, almost alone in the conflictual world of the British empire, fought and triumphed over British-led armies, a people who, after 1898, were again fellow victims of British imperialism. Without denying their often lofty perches, these nationalists were leaders in shaping Egyptian identity as a nation, and their literary works helped promote nationalist policy in the Sudan (or toward the Sudan), Egypt’s oldest colony. Ironically, these elite members of the colonized population of Egypt thus reinforce Said’s demonstration of the power of certain kinds of imperial language. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 89

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Reinforces the reader’s comparative coloniality framework: colonized Egyptians deploying the same imperial discourse toward their own Sudanese colony.