Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
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New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.
Edition
First edition.
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Published
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 388 pages ; illustrations; 25 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
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 Americas historical penchant for finding feast in the abnormal, for tyrannizing the "other"-a tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself. 28 illustrations
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Huang, Y. (2018). Inseparable: the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history (First edition.). Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Huang, Yunte. 2018. Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous With American History. Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Huang, Yunte. Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous With American History Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Huang, Yunte. Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous With American History First edition., Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.
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