Mummy Eaters / Sherry Shenoda ; foreword by Kwame Daes

English

Lincoln : Nebraska, [2022]

©2022

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Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe- Shenoda, Sherry: Mummy eaters. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2022. - xix, 78 Seiten

978-1-4962-3411-7

978-1-4962-3410-0

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-1-4962-3254-0 (Druckausgabe)

*Ägypten <Altertum> / Echnaton<Ägypten, Pharao> *ca. v14. Jh.* / Mumie / Inkarnation

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Dewey Decimal Classification: 811/.6

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: HP 9999.1: H Anglistik. Amerikanistik / HP-HQ Englischsprachige Literatur außerhalb der Britischen Inseln und der USA / Autoren des 21. Jahrhunderts (geb. ab 1975)

Following in the footsteps of an imagined ancestor, one of the daughters of the house of Akhenaten in the Eighteenth Dynasty, Egypt, Sherry Shenoda forges an imagined path through her ancestor's mummification and journey to the afterlife.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword by Kwame Dawes -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Sunflowers of Fukushima: Invocation -- Part I -- Ancestor Opening of the Mouth: A Daughter's Long Wail -- Aftermath: A Mother's Long Wail -- Mummification: Early Lessons -- From Mummification to the Incarnation -- Descendant Ponders the Rising Cost of Dying -- Makeup -- Race against Time I -- Shabti, Ushabti: "Answerer" -- Descendant Ponders Space -- Ancestor Dreams of the River Nile by a Dark Gate -- Kemet, Nile -- Descendants, in Memory of Our Family Farm -- Ancestor Makes a Negative Confession -- Etymologies: God -- Descendant Mourns Akhenaten: A Lesser Hymn to One God -- Apophatic Confession -- To Become One of the Blessed Dead -- Part II -- Question -- Etymologies: Mummy -- Mummy Eaters -- Immigration: "King (Deceased)" -- Living Mummies -- A Dealer Sits -- Flesh Trade -- Descendants Discuss Motivation, Your Honor -- Descendants Discuss Literary Merits of Mummy Eating -- Thomas Pettigrew Mansplains Mummies -- How to Silence I: British Lessons -- How to Silence II: Roman Lessons -- Stolen Hour -- How to Silence III: Greek Lessons -- Race against Time II -- Mummy Brown -- Supply and Demand -- Part III -- Race against Time III -- Descendant Talks Suffering with Old Aunties -- Descendant Opening of the Eyes: A Daughter's Long Wail -- Descendant Interrogated about Suffering and Ancestry -- Descendant Addresses French Boy: Skin Politics -- Descendants Offer Prayer -- Etymologies: Book of the Dead -- Cairo, 1958 -- Descendants Discuss Definitives -- Descendant Names Modern Mummy Eaters -- Numbers -- How to Silence: Mathematics Edition -- True Mirror -- Ancestor Calms Descendant's Fears about Having Children in a World without Kemet -- El Asar -- How to Silence IV: Arabic Lessons -- Ou-ta: How to Speak from Silence -- Final Test.

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