Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
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Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
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- Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
- Title remainder
- the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
- Statement of responsibility
- Yunte Huang
- Subject
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- Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies
- Biography
- Biographies
- History
- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
- Conjoined twins -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Biographies
- Conjoined twins -- United States -- Biography
- Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874
- United States
- Conjoined twins
- Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874
- 1800-1899
- Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- A portrait of nineteenth-century conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker describes their rise from savvy side-show celebrities to wealthy Southern gentry and discusses how their experiences reflected America's historical penchant for objectifying differences
- "With wry humor, Shakespearean profundity, and trenchant insight, Yunte Huang brings to life the story of America's most famous nineteenth-century Siamese twins. Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were "discovered" in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Bringing an Asian American perspective to this almost implausible story, Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum exhibits but later as financially savvy showmen who gained their freedom and traveled the backroads of rural America to bring "entertainment" to the Jacksonian mobs. Their rise from subhuman, freak-show celebrities to rich southern gentry; their marriage to two white sisters, resulting in twenty-one children; and their owning of slaves, is here not just another sensational biography but a Hawthorne-like excavation of America's historical penchant for finding feast in the abnormal, for tyrannizing the "other"--a tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself." -- Publisher's description
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
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- 616/.043092
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QM691.B86
- LC item number
- H83 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- WZ 100
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