Sanü`a’s Sudanese characters voiced native Egyptian resentment toward Ottoman Egyptians

Evidence

This same intimate comprehension and exchange of meanings is responsible for the resonance of these Sudanese characters for both Sanüa and his audience.Abü Rida, however lovable, is replete with tics that identify him to the audience as a familiar, but non-Egyptian, prop in Egyptian life. If Cole's formulation about the communicative patterns between writer and audience are correct, then perhaps Sanüa was articulating native Egyptians’ anger at Ottoman Egyptians’ assumptions of superiority, which would mean that, on some level, they would sympathize with Abü Rida. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 379

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks to how colonial/dominant groupings within Egypt proper (Ottoman Egyptians vs. native Egyptians) mirrored larger colonial hierarchies toward Sudan and Nubia — relevant to the reader’s Egypt-vs-Sudan comparison.