Egyptians voiced anti-British anger through the Nubian comic figure

Evidence

As `Alï al-Kassär’s son wrote in the biography of his father, Al-Qadiya nimra 14, this play offered audiences an example of patriotic defiance against the British authorities and of the tendency of those authorities to label and insult the population over which they ruled. In this sense, particularly within the context of the mounting nationalistic anger in Egypt right before the uprising of 1919, Osman’s Nubian identity becomes a conduit through which Egyptians could express anger at British racism. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 887

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Homi Bhabha’s mimicry and subaltern ventriloquism literatures and the reader’s broader African coloniality framing; also parallels minstrel ventriloquism in US history.