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Me and my mummy
There's something weird about Zack's new friend Icky. It's not just the bandages or the Egyptian writing--but it might have something to do with being 3,000 years old!
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The Egyptian Museum in Fiction: The Mummy’s Eyes as the ‘Black Mirror’ of the Empire
This article considers the way the late nineteenth-century genre of mummy fiction represents the exhibition of Egyptian mummies in the space of private or public museums. In the context of the constitution of the ‘imperial archive’ (Thomas Richards), the museum plays a substantial role and the interactions between the archaeologist or museum visitor and the mummy in fiction can be interpreted in imperial terms, archaeological processes of excavation, classification and exhibition mirroring imperial dynamics. The motif of the gaze in particular gives us an insight into Victorian and Edwardian notions of knowledge and its links with imperial domination at the turn of the century. In texts such as Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903) and Henry Rider Haggard’s ‘Smith and the Pharaohs’ (1913), the scientific and aesthetising gaze of the archaeologist is challenged by the eyes of the mummy who, in turn, gazes at the museum visitor and thus defeats the imperial order of the museum. My contention is that the showcasing of mummies in these two texts leads to a critique of imperialism as the mummy’s gaze, by offering a mirror image to the museum visitor, can mediate imperial anxieties and put on display the repressed parts of the imperial psyche.
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M & M and the mummy mess
Best friends Mandy and Mimi have a scary time when their eagerness to see mummies leads them to sneak into the new museum exhibit a week before it opens.
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Sleeping beauties: mummies and the fairy-tale genre at the fin de siecle
This essay examines the relationship between mummy fiction and the fairy-tale genre in the closing years of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth. It argues that dormant and perfectly-preserved female mummies that populate much of fin-de-siecle mummy fiction emulate the figure of Sleeping Beauty or Snow White, preserved in glass coffins or museum display cases. Concurrently, it observes that while the suggestion of the marriage of the mummy is raised in a number of these texts, any chance of longstanding romantic union is often foiled, in contrast to the distinctly marital \"happily-ever-after\"s characteristic of the fairy tale. As human remains that were bought, sold and collected throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and beyond, mummies invited (and still invite) objectification. Yet the frequent disintegration or disappearance of these desirable mummies before they can be bound by the legal and religious strictures of marriage in these fictions demarcates them as objects which cannot be tamed. This essay claims that we might read this in light of Britain's contemporary imperial involvement in Egypt, a political and historical context that scholars have recognised as responsible for a number of narratives revolving around the notion of the mummy's curse: the female bodies which cannot be fully controlled could be seen to resist Britain's imperialist mission. Ultimately, through this analysis, this essay seeks to reconcile the \"imperial Gothic\" whose tales of imperial adventure and danger are often held to be \"masculine,\" with the fairy tale, held by many theorists as \"feminine.\" This approach aims to establish the influence of fairy-tale tropes and conventions far beyond the genres traditionally aligned with this \"feminine\" tradition.
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The missing mummy
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose help catch the thieves who have stolen the treasure from the museum's mummy exhibit.
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Imperialism and the abject gothic double : Jane Goodwin Austin's 'After Three Thousand Years'
Jane Goodwin Austin (1831-1894) published her short story 'After Three Thousand Years' in 1868. Austin's tale is one of the first narratives to deal with a malevolent female mummy and what is known as the mummy's curse. Her story has received limited critical attention unlike a similar story published by Louisa May Alcott in 1869, 'Lost in a Pyramid, or The Mummy's Curse'. This lack of scholarly attention makes Austin's short story more interesting to the researcher than that of Alcott. In my article, I will perform a close reading of 'After Three Thousand Years', examining how the imperialist theme is intertwined with the abject Gothic doubling of the mummy and the female protagonists, which I consider to be central to the plot of Austin's story.
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Secrets of the mummies
Find out about mummies from all around the world. Make reading your superpower with DK's leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about what mummies are and some famous mummies - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress.
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Digital Reincarnation: The Mediated Bodies and Multiple Lives of The Mummy
This article mobilizes the motif of digital reincarnation to examine the regenerating bodies and the multiple lives of the mummy in The Mummy franchise. I read the body of the mummy as a cyborg hybrid because it features enhanced powers of rejuvenation that are indicative of malleable, porous, and networked bodies of our digital era. This updated version of a computer-generated mummy infuses digital aesthetics and logic into the mummy complex of cinema. Assembled in the virtual production pipeline of global Hollywood, this contemporary mummy is a heterogeneous amalgam of media forms: organic flesh, synthetic prosthetics, and digital bytes.
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