Egyptians held romantic fantasies about southern territories they barely administered

Evidence

The trend toward the exotic was fueled by the growth of Romanticism, an artistic and philosophical movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The image of an exotic Orient associated with “sensuality, promise, terror, sublimity, idyllic pleasure, [and] intense energy” can be found in the works of musicians, painters, novelists, and philosophers from Mozart to Byron, Hugo, and Goethe. To be fair, the Romantics did not only look to the East for the exotic: they also looked to their own past, drawing from Gothic tales and stories of European barbarians. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 89 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Romanticism projected an exotic Orientalist fantasy rather than accurate knowledge — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 89; Egypt’s colonizing of Sudan functioned as a non-European imperial imagination; Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa

Related

• Romanticism projected an exotic Orientalist fantasy rather than accurate knowledge (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalism’s ontological rigidity makes its fantasies nearly impossible to dismantle (similarity 0.81)
• Egypt’s colonizing of Sudan functioned as a non-European imperial imagination (similarity 0.80)
• Romantic adventurers challenged the institutional authority of professional Orientalists. (similarity 0.80)
• Egyptians held romanticized ignorance of Sudan despite ruling it for decades (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalist science masks an egoistic will to power (similarity 0.80)
• Egyptians learned empire by drawing sharper distinctions from Sudan (similarity 0.80)
• Egyptian attitudes about Sudan derived from Ottoman and older Islamic cultures (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptians feared being viewed by Europe as colonizable like Sudan (similarity 0.79)
• Mubärak paralleled African experiences of being stared at with Egyptians in Europe (similarity 0.79)
• Orientalism ignores factual accuracy in favor of exotic horror (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist-style stereotypes about Sudan and Africa. (similarity 0.79)
• Eighteenth-century France romanticized exotic others as noble (similarity 0.79)
• Author Beckford lived out Orientalist fantasy by renaming his estate Baghdad (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa #expands (0.70)
• Egypt’s colonizing of Sudan functioned as a non-European imperial imagination #expands (0.60)
• Romanticism projected an exotic Orientalist fantasy rather than accurate knowledge #corroborates (0.50) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 89