Egyptians learned empire by drawing sharper distinctions from Sudan

Evidence

What my study challenges in Said’s work is the idea that Egyptians suffered in silence, the idea that many in Egypt did not themselves engage in a discourse of stereotypes and fantasies about the Sudan specifically and Africa in general, a discourse that paralleled Orientalist imagery. Although he wrote many pages on the objectification of Egypt in European literature, Said did not include in Orientalism a single sample of Egyptian literature or a discussion of Egyptians’ long history of creative and eventually successful response to the British occupation. Even had he included such material, Said would have had to address other levels of often contradictory discourse, particularly in reference to the Sudan. As Ania Loomba writes, “‘Colonialism’ is not just something that happens from outside a country or a people, not just something that operates with the collusion of forces inside, but a version of it can be duplicated from within.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 75 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egypt’s own colonizing of Sudan shaped its sense of nationhood; Conquering the Sudan gave Egyptians a stronger sense of nation — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 127; Travel accounts of Sudan shifted from family to colonized subjects (+14 more)

Related

• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa (similarity 0.93)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist-style stereotypes about Sudan and Africa. (similarity 0.92)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced stereotypes about Sudan paralleling Orientalist imagery (similarity 0.90)
• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects (similarity 0.90)
• Mubärak paralleled African experiences of being stared at with Egyptians in Europe (similarity 0.88)
• Egypt’s colonizing of Sudan functioned as a non-European imperial imagination (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalists deployed racial stereotypes about Sudanese domestics (similarity 0.87)
• Conquering the Sudan gave Egyptians a stronger sense of nation (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptians feared being viewed by Europe as colonizable like Sudan (similarity 0.86)
• Sudanese and Egyptians reciprocally held condescension and resentment shaped by colonial hierarchies. (similarity 0.86)
• Lutfï al-Sayyid equated Egyptian and Sudanese subjection to shared autocratic rule (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian attitudes about Sudan derived from Ottoman and older Islamic cultures (similarity 0.86)
• Egypt’s own colonizing of Sudan shaped its sense of nationhood (similarity 0.86)
• Some Egyptian writers framed imperialism as a civilizing benefit for the colonized. (similarity 0.86)
• Egypt and Sudan formed a triangular colonial relationship that shaped Egyptian nationalism. (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects #expands (0.70)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa #expands (0.65)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist-style stereotypes about Sudan and Africa. #expands (0.65) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 75
• Egypt’s empire in Sudan had an uncertain national identity #expands (0.60)
• Egypt’s colonizing of Sudan functioned as a non-European imperial imagination #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalism developed within a triangular structure involving Britain and the Sudan #expands (0.60)
• Mapping the Sudan intensified Egyptian national self-definition #corroborates (0.55)