Egyptian popular culture caricatured Sudanese people to build national unity

Evidence

My final chapter looks at the era of the 1919 revolution in Egypt, when demonstrations against the British grew widespread enough to win Egyptians a nominally independent parliament. It also analyzes the thinking of Huda Sharawï—the first Egyptian feminist, founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union, and a significant leader of the 1919 revolution—and how she treated the subject of the Sudan and the Sudanese, a subject she took seriously to heart. The chapter also examines how proponents of popular culture, such as the popular songwriter Sayyid Darwïsh and the vaudevillian star Alï al-Kassär, used the question of the Sudan and the Sudanese to direct Egyptians of different classes to the cause of Egyptian unity against the British. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 120

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how Egyptian coloniality toward Sudan differed from British coloniality and to theories of representation of the colonized within a colonizing nearby people.