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 ancestorâ s mummification and journey to the afterlife.
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 ancestorâ s mummification and journey to the afterlife.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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 Wai 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 Letters for My Grandmothers Notes and References
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 Wai 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 Letters for My Grandmothers Notes and References
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