Mummy Eaters (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	African Poetry Book
Release date:	July 2022
Authors:	Sherry Shenoda
Foreword by:	Kwame Dawes
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	104
ISBN-13:	978-1-4962-3254-0
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-4962-3254-2
Barcode:	9781496232540

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