By Eve M. Troutt Powell
This incisive research provides a brand new measurement to discussions of Egypt's nationalist reaction to the phenomenon of colonialism in addition to to discussions of colonialism and nationalism usually. Eve M. Troutt Powell demanding situations many authorized tenets of the binary courting among eu empires and non-European colonies by means of studying the triangle of colonialism marked through nice Britain, Egypt, and the Sudan. She demonstrates how valuable the problem of the Sudan was once to Egyptian nationalism and highlights the deep ambivalence in Egyptian attitudes towards empire and the ensuing ambiguities and paradoxes that have been an integral part of the nationalist move. a unique colour of Colonialism enriches our realizing of 19th- and twentieth-century Egyptian attitudes towards slavery and race and expands our point of view of the "colonized colonizer."
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By looking at the works of Muhammad al-Tunisï, Selim Qapudan, Rifa`ah Rafi` alTahtawï, and `Alï Mubärak, prominent men all writing at different points during Muhammad `Alï’s reign, this chapter examines how definitions of the relationship between Egypt and the Sudan changed as the latter became more effectively colonized. It also looks at concepts of “blackness” as described by each of these men, and how constructions of race hardened Introduction / 23 after the middle of the century, particularly in the work of Shaykh alTahtawï.
Imperial intervention could thus be figured as a linear, nonrevolutionary progression that naturally contained hierarchy within unity: paternal fathers ruling benignly over immature children. ” This is one of the important reasons why fictionalized Sudanese slaves appeared so often in the writings of nationalists in Egypt throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Given the layers of meaning surrounding these women, there is great irony in the fact that the six slaves left the courtroom and were placed in the Cairo Home for Freed Slaves, an institution created by the British as a sort of training and employment clearinghouse, where manumitted black women could find paying jobs, as domestics, keeping their connection to the institution of the family respectable.
My final chapter looks at the era of the 1919 revolution in Egypt, when demonstrations against the British grew widespread enough to win Egyptians a nominally independent parliament. It also analyzes the thinking of Huda Sha`rawï—the first Egyptian feminist, founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union, and a significant leader of the 1919 revolution—and how she treated the subject of the Sudan and the Sudanese, a subject she took seriously to heart. The chapter also examines how proponents of popular culture, such as the popular songwriter Sayyid Darwïsh and the vaudevillian star `Alï al-Kassär, used the question of the Sudan and the Sudanese to direct Egyptians of different classes to the cause of Egyptian unity against the British.