Sudan served as the foil that defined Egyptian national identity

Evidence

The Sudan was a testing ground for Egyptian virility, for the individuals who had shed their blood there (fighting the Sudanese), and for the entire national project of independence at a time when the dominant worldview insisted that independent, self-reliant nations were by definition also regional, if not global, conquerors. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 726 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Conquering the Sudan gave Egyptians a stronger sense of nation — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 127; Egyptian nationalism was defined against the Sudanese as racial other; Sudan simultaneously built Egyptian national identity and signified exile from it (+13 more)

Related

• Kämil described the Sudan as the living spirit of the Egyptian nation (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian nationalism treated the Sudan as a proof of national virility (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian nationalism framed Sudan as Egypt’s soul through shared experience. (similarity 0.89)
• Sudan simultaneously built Egyptian national identity and signified exile from it (similarity 0.88)
• Conquering the Sudan gave Egyptians a stronger sense of nation (similarity 0.88)
• Kamil gendering the Sudan as a maiden territory earned by Egyptian blood (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalists saw mastery over the Sudan as restoration of past greatness (similarity 0.85)
• Egypt’s own colonizing of Sudan shaped its sense of nationhood (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptians learned empire by drawing sharper distinctions from Sudan (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed primacy among all colonizers of Sudan. (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan for Egypt yet felt it alien and unhomelike. (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalists construed the Sudan as an organic part of Egypt, not a colony (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalists adopted corporeal metaphors for the loss of the Sudan (similarity 0.83)
• Egypt’s empire in Sudan had an uncertain national identity (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Sudan simultaneously built Egyptian national identity and signified exile from it #expands (0.85)
• Egyptian nationalism treated the Sudan as a proof of national virility #exemplifies (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 726
• Mapping the Sudan intensified Egyptian national self-definition #exemplifies (0.70)
• Egyptians learned empire by drawing sharper distinctions from Sudan #expands (0.70)
• Mapping the Sudanese colony strengthened the Egyptian national sense of self #exemplifies (0.70)
• Al-Tahtawï originated the Egyptian concept of watan and used Sudan as its boundary. #exemplifies (0.65)
• Kämil described the Sudan as the living spirit of the Egyptian nation #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalists redefined the Sudan as part of Egypt to mask colonial domination #complicates (0.55)
• The telegraph made Sudan a fixture of Egyptian discourse just as it was lost #exemplifies (0.55)
• Egypt’s empire in Sudan had an uncertain national identity #complicates (0.50)