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List of Maps and Plates ....................................... 11 A Note on Spelling and Transliteration . ........................ 13 Abbreviations ............................................. 14 Preface ................................................... 15 CHAPTER ONE: The Personality of the Sudan .................... 21 Geography............................................. 21 Ethnic and Linguistic Composition................ ........ . 23 Historical Background ................................... 28 The Nubian Civilization ................................ 28 The Funj Kingdom .................................... 30 Turko-Egyptian Colonization .............. ............. 31 The Mahdist State .................................. 32 British Colonization ........................ ........ 32 The Nationalist Movement ............................. . 33 National Rule ........................................ 36 The Problem ........................................... 41 Competing Concepts................................... 41 Emergence of the Center................... ............ . 44 The Scientific Position ................. ............... . 49 Shattering the Old Folklore............................. . 52 The Identity Crisis ..................................... 53 The Linguistic Factor .................................. 54 Alternative Concepts: The Sudanization Process and Sudanism ... 56 CHAPTER TWO: The Quest for Identity in Literature .............. 60 Arabism, Sudanism, and Afro-Arabism: The Political and Aesthetic Genesis .............................................. 61 Madrasat Al-Ghaba wa al-Sahra (The Jungle and Desert School) .... 71 An Arabo-centric Alternative ............................... 74 A Problem of Contextuality ................................ 78 A History of Specification .................................. 79 The Sudanese Universe .................................... 83 CHAPTER THREE: The Quest for Identity in Modem Sudanese Visual Art ................................................ 89 General Background ....................................... 89 The African Context ..................................... 92 The Sudanese Context ................................... 94 The Sudanawiyya .......................................... 97 Sudanawiyya, Sudanism, and the Sudanization Process: Two Different Criteria ................................... 99 Identity: A "Suspect Notion" ................................ 103 An Alternative Argument ................................... 104 The Khartoum School: The Intertwining of Self-Identification and Aesthetic Self-Actualization .............................. 107 Significance of the Khartoum School ......................... 110 Contemporary Developments ................................ 116 CHAPTER FOUR: Sudanese Music and Dance: Arabic and Afro-Arabic-Identities ...................................... 125 Historical Overview ...................................... 125 Arabic and Afro-Arabic Identities .......................... 129 The Identity of Sudanese Music: A Critique .................. .132 Taste as a Gauge of Culture: Two Examples ................. 136 Dance ................................................. 141 Shaiqiyya Dance ......................................... 141 The Ethnic and Cultural Identification of the Shaiqiyya .......... 145 Dance and the Cultural Basis of Music .................. ..... 149 CHAPTER FIVE: The Art Institution and the Political Institution: Artistic De-centralization .................................... 153 The Art Institution and the Political Institution ................. .. 153 The National Council for Arts and Letters..................... 154 The Institute of Music and Theater ................. ....... 157 Art Organizations...................................... 157 Omdurman Song ........................................ 160 The Social and Intellectual Milieux ........... ...... ...... 160 The Aesthetic Dimension................................ 162 Artistic De-centralization.................................. 166 'Idg al-Jalad .......................................... 168 Test of Compatibility ..................................... 169 CHAPTER SIX: "Islamization" of the Arts:The Sudanese Experience . . 172 Introduction .............................................. 172 Theoretical Problems ... .................................. . 173 Islam and Arabic Culture ................................... 175 The Influence of Cultural Heritage....................... 175 The Sudanese Islamist Experience ................ . ....... .. 177 The Definition and Place of Art ............................ 178 Art and the Legacy of Islamic Jurisprudence ................ 180 The Role of Art in the Islamist Movement ................. . 180 Legislative and Political Measures ................. ....... 182 The Ideological Dimension ............................... 185 Failure of the Islamist Project.......................... 188 The Al-Dasosiyyi Ritual (The Hiding of the Bride) ............... 192 The Structure of the Ritual .............................. 193 The Function of the Ritual ................................. 193 The Aesthetic Framework of the Ritual ..................... 195 CHAPTER SEVEN: Back to Mangu Zambiri ..................... 198 The North-South Relationship: A Background ................... 198 "Proving Our Existence"............... ................. 203 The Intertwining of "Liberation" and Identity ................... 207 Sudanism: The Basis of a New Sudan ....................... 210