Egyptian theater framed Sudanese identity itself as a comic servile condition.

Evidence

Although the action that made Fayrüz a eunuch would have taken place somewhere else, his castration is reenacted verbally for the theater audience when his amorous feelings for Marguerite are made humorous. He is a character out of control, incapable of disciplining his libido, his grammar, his laughter, and the loudness of his voice. When questioned, Fayrüz Agha can only respond that the cause of his behavior is his Sudanese identity, as if this were a psychological complex that Egyptians would immediately have understood. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 981

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader theme of Egyptian colonial condescension toward Sudan and how racialized stereotyping operated within a colonizer-colonized liminal relationship.