Egyptian nationalist writers used fictional Sudanese voices to claim sovereignty over the Sudan

Evidence

Sharawï repeated all the Wafd's ideas about the Sudan, saying, "We must hold on to our rights with respect to the issue of the Sudan, considering the Sudan an inseparable part of Egypt, and not a colony." … In one such letter, sent to the press on 24 March 1924 she berates Zaghlül,"who knows as every one else knows that Egypt cannot tolerate her soldiers being forced out of the Sudan." — <cite>Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 856</cite> (#expands`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptian nationalism was defined against the Sudanese as racial other; Egyptian satirists linked Sudanese conquest to Egypt’s own subjugation; The Mahdist rebellion forced Egyptian satirists to redraw Sudanese images (+23 more)

Related

• Egyptian nationalists claimed primacy among all colonizers of Sudan. (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan for Egypt yet felt it alien and unhomelike. (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as part of Egypt while denying it was a colony (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as inseparable from Egypt while denouncing British imperialism (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalists denied Sudan’s colonial status by framing it as part of Egypt. (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalists construed the Sudan as an organic part of Egypt, not a colony (similarity 0.85)
• Sudanese leaders in 1919 launched an anti-Egyptian independence platform in print. (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalists redefined the Sudan as part of Egypt to mask colonial domination (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalists deployed racial stereotypes about Sudanese domestics (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalists adopted corporeal metaphors for the loss of the Sudan (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian satirists linked Sudanese conquest to Egypt’s own subjugation (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced stereotypes about Sudan paralleling Orientalist imagery (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian anti-imperial nationalists embraced the civilizing mission against Sudan (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian nationalists ventriloquized invented Sudanese voices they could not find in reality. (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian nationalists ventriloquized fake Sudanese voices instead of seeking real Sudanese allies #corroborates (0.90)
• Egyptian plays reenacted Egypt’s civilizing domination over Sudan linguistically #exemplifies (0.75)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as part of Egypt while denying it was a colony #expands (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 856
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan #expands (0.65)
• Egyptian nationalists redefined the Sudan as part of Egypt to mask colonial domination #expands (0.65)
• Egyptian writers framed Egyptian rule as a civilizing force over a wild Sudan #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian colonial writers justified domination by styling Sudanese identity as deficient #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced stereotypes about Sudan paralleling Orientalist imagery #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalism treated the Sudan as a proof of national virility #expands (0.50) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 726
• Egyptian nationalists saw mastery over the Sudan as restoration of past greatness #expands (0.50)
• Sudanese caricatures in Egyptian popular culture coincided with Sudanese anti-British revolt #complicates (0.50)