Sudanese characters in Egyptian drama drew on stereo types from the 1870s.

Evidence

What my study challenges in Said’s work is the idea that Egyptians suffered in silence, the idea that many in Egypt did not themselves engage in a discourse of stereotypes and fantasies about the Sudan specifically and Africa in general, a discourse that paralleled Orientalist imagery. Although he wrote many pages on the objectification of Egypt in European literature, Said did not include in Orientalism a single sample of Egyptian literature or a discussion of Egyptians’ long history of creative and eventually successful response to the British occupation. Even had he included such material, Said would have had to address other levels of often contradictory discourse, particularly in reference to the Sudan. As Ania Loomba writes, “‘Colonialism’ is not just something that happens from outside a country or a people, not just something that operates with the collusion of forces inside, but a version of it can be duplicated from within.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 75 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sudanese characters in Egyptian realist drama remained stereotyped where Egyptian characters gained depth; Egyptian drama infantilized Nubian domestic figures for comic comfort; Sudanese literary characters remained flat stereotypes unchanged since the 1870s. (+9 more)

Related

• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa (similarity 0.90)
• Sudanese stereotypes in Egyptian media remained unchanged over four decades of turmoil. (similarity 0.90)
• `Alï `abd al-Latïf’s erasure mirrored the caricature of Sudanese in Egyptian culture. (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist-style stereotypes about Sudan and Africa. (similarity 0.89)
• Racial stereotypes of Sudanese remained unchanged across a century of colonial politics. (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced stereotypes about Sudan paralleling Orientalist imagery (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian cultural productions erased Sudan’s distinctness by depicting it as Egypt’s backyard (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian theater stereotyped Sudanese as undisciplined and libidinous (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian national self-exploration still stereotyped Nubians and Sudanese as blank buffoons (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalists deployed racial stereotypes about Sudanese domestics (similarity 0.86)
• Sudanese slaves in Egypt were caricatured as cartoons and comic characters (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian cultural nationalism modernized its own image but kept black Sudanese stereotypes frozen. (similarity 0.86)
• Sudanese stock types survived unchanged in Egyptian drama from the 1870s onward. (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian theater framed Sudanese identity itself as a comic servile condition. (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptians learned empire by drawing sharper distinctions from Sudan (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian nationalists reproduced stereotypes about Sudan paralleling Orientalist imagery #expands (0.70)
• Egyptian theater stereotyped Sudanese as undisciplined and libidinous #expands (0.60)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist-style stereotypes about Sudan and Africa. #expands (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 75
• Egyptian and British stereotypes of Sudan as savage persisted unchanged for decades #expands (0.55)