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Mummy Eaters (häftad, eng)
2023 American Book Award
2022 Longlist for the National Book Awards
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African P...
2022 Longlist for the National Book Awards
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African P...
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2023 American Book Award
2022 Longlist for the National Book Awards
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Sherry Shenoda’s collection Mummy Eaters follows in the footsteps of an imagined ancestor, one of the daughters of the house of Akhenaten in the Eighteenth Dynasty, Egypt.
Shenoda forges an imagined path through her ancestor’s mummification and journey to the afterlife. Parallel to this exploration run the implications of colonialism on her passage.
The mythology of the ancient Egyptians was oriented toward resurrection through the preservation of the human body in mummification.
Shenoda juxtaposes this reverence for the human body as sacred matter and a pathway to eternal life with the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European fascination with ingesting Egyptian human remains as medicine and using exhumed Egyptian mummies as paper, paint, and fertilizer.
Today Egyptian human remains are displayed in museums. Much of Mummy Eaters is written as a call and response, in the Coptic tradition, between the imagined ancestor and the author as descendant.
2022 Longlist for the National Book Awards
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Sherry Shenoda’s collection Mummy Eaters follows in the footsteps of an imagined ancestor, one of the daughters of the house of Akhenaten in the Eighteenth Dynasty, Egypt.
Shenoda forges an imagined path through her ancestor’s mummification and journey to the afterlife. Parallel to this exploration run the implications of colonialism on her passage.
The mythology of the ancient Egyptians was oriented toward resurrection through the preservation of the human body in mummification.
Shenoda juxtaposes this reverence for the human body as sacred matter and a pathway to eternal life with the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European fascination with ingesting Egyptian human remains as medicine and using exhumed Egyptian mummies as paper, paint, and fertilizer.
Today Egyptian human remains are displayed in museums. Much of Mummy Eaters is written as a call and response, in the Coptic tradition, between the imagined ancestor and the author as descendant.
| Format | Häftad |
| Omfång | 104 sidor |
| Språk | Engelska |
| Förlag | University of Nebraska Press |
| Utgivningsdatum | 2022-09-01 |
| ISBN | 9781496232540 |
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- Häftad, 104, Engelska, University of Nebraska Press, 2022-09-01, 9781496232540
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Specifikation
Böcker
- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 104
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag University of Nebraska Press
- Utgivningsdatum 2022-09-01
- ISBN 9781496232540