Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptian attitudes about Sudan derived from Ottoman and older Islamic cultures — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 107; Egyptians learned empire by drawing sharper distinctions from Sudan; Egyptian elites built Westernized schools to forge a protonationalist identity (+30 more)

Related

• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist-style stereotypes about Sudan and Africa. (similarity 0.96)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced stereotypes about Sudan paralleling Orientalist imagery (similarity 0.95)
• Egyptians learned empire by drawing sharper distinctions from Sudan (similarity 0.93)
• Egyptian nationalists deployed racial stereotypes about Sudanese domestics (similarity 0.93)
• Mubärak paralleled African experiences of being stared at with Egyptians in Europe (similarity 0.92)
• Sudanese characters in Egyptian drama drew on stereo types from the 1870s. (similarity 0.90)
• `Alï `abd al-Latïf’s erasure mirrored the caricature of Sudanese in Egyptian culture. (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian attitudes about Sudan derived from Ottoman and older Islamic cultures (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian cultural nationalism modernized its own image but kept black Sudanese stereotypes frozen. (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian national self-exploration still stereotyped Nubians and Sudanese as blank buffoons (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptians blamed the Sudanese ‘African world’ for slavery’s existence. (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian writers framed Egyptian rule as a civilizing force over a wild Sudan (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian intellectuals increasingly racialized identity against African societies (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptians feared being viewed by Europe as colonizable like Sudan (similarity 0.85)
• Sudanese and Egyptians reciprocally held condescension and resentment shaped by colonial hierarchies. (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist-style stereotypes about Sudan and Africa. #corroborates (0.90) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 75
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced stereotypes about Sudan paralleling Orientalist imagery #expands (0.85)
• Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally #expands (0.75)
• Egyptian nationalists actively used European race discourse to frame views on Sudan #expands (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 98
• Egyptian plays reenacted Egypt’s civilizing domination over Sudan linguistically #exemplifies (0.55)
• Racial vocabulary existed among Sudanese before Egyptians imposed it #complicates (0.50)