Sanu’a wrote of Sudanese warriors in elevated classical Arabic

Evidence

Summer approached, and the land set out for bitter fighting, the sunbaked ground burning the hides, broiling the flesh, the brains rising to the top of the head, and in the far distance, the vast destination, the frightening road, the enemy hardened, the call to war a religious call, and those fighting would have exchanged their spirits without hardship, hopeful of meeting their lord and satisfied with his leaders, barricading the English from the road inch by inch, blocking the road step-by-step [marhalatan ba`d marhalatan]. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 469

Categorization

Category: Craft and Method

Related

• Sanua idealized Sudanese warriors as epic heroes in classical Arabic. (similarity 0.85)
• Sanu’a cast British, Sudanese, and Egyptians as fixed storybook roles (similarity 0.84)
• Sanü`a’s Mahdï remained cast in the subordinate gatekeeper role of Sudanese servants (similarity 0.82)
• Sanua portrayed Sudanese Mahdist fighters as voluntary religious martyrs. (similarity 0.81)