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Mummy eaters / Sherry Shenoda ; foreword by Kwame Dawes.
Van Pelt Library PS3619.H45385 M86 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shenoda, Sherry, author.
- Series:
- African poetry book series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African poetry.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 78 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: PART I
- Ancestor Opening of the Mouth: A Daughters 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 if 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 Daughters 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
- Letters for My Grandmothers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- American Book Awards - Winner, 2023
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781496232540
- 1496232542
- OCLC:
- 1301904327
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