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Availability:In StockContributor:Sherry Shenoda, Kwame DawesSeries:African Poetry BookPublish date:2022-09-01Pages:104
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496232540ISBN-10:1496232542UPC:9781496232540Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:African, AmericanAward:2022 National Book Awards Nominee - Poetry AwardSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.25 inchesWeight:0.3594Product ID:SCKCHZGSDD
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496232540ISBN-10:1496232542UPC:9781496232540Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:African, AmericanAward:2022 National Book Awards Nominee - Poetry AwardSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.25 inchesWeight:0.3594Product ID:SCKCHZGSDD
Sherry Shenoda is a Coptic poet and pediatrician, born in Cairo, living near Los Angeles. Working at the intersection of human rights and child health, she serves as a pediatrician in a nonprofit health center. She is the author of The Lightkeeper: A Novel.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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🏆 2022 National Book Awards Nominee - Poetry Award
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