Nationalist ideologies emerged against the backdrop of prior large cultural systems

Evidence

The works of Egyptian writers in my study also reflect many of the important themes about nationalist language that Benedict Anderson describes in his work Imagined Communities, a book that, like Said’s Orientalism, has become part of the canon for scholars of colonialism and nationalism. Anderson portrays the historical and economic processes that define nations in the minds of their citizens, and the rapidity with which nationalist ideas have taken hold. His point is to situate the self-conscious political ideologies of nationalism within “the large cultural systems that preceded it, out of which—as well as against which—it came into being.” The pivotal element in all of these cultural systems is language, and great changes were brought by the divorce, initiated by print capitalism, between sacral and vernacular languages in Europe that created both new means of publishing, new voices, and new audiences. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 90

Categorization

• XREF: Connects the reader’s Egypt-Sudan colonial study directly to Anderson’s Imagined Communities framework, complementing the earlier Said move. — connects to: Nationalism emerged from printed shared narratives, not shared acquaintance — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 124; Cultural identity has replaced ideology as the defining basis of state alignment; Nationalism must be read against prior cultural systems, not political ideologies — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 58 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Nationalism emerged from printed shared narratives, not shared acquaintance — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 124; Cultural identity has replaced ideology as the defining basis of state alignment; Nationalism must be read against prior cultural systems, not political ideologies — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 58 (+3 more)