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Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History - Hardcover

Huang, Yunte (University Of California, Santa Barbara)

 
9780871404473: Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0871404478 ISBN 13: 9780871404473
Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography,Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaitedportrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874), twinsconjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fusedliver, who were “discovered” in Siam by a British merchant in1824. Bringing an Asian American perspective to this almostimplausible story, Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Bostonin 1829, first as museum exhibits but later as financially savvyshowmen who gained their freedom and traveled the backroadsof rural America to bring “entertainment” to the Jacksonianmobs. Their rise from subhuman, freak-show celebrities to richsouthern gentry; their marriage to two white sisters, resulting intwenty-one children; and their owning of slaves, is here not justanother sensational biography but a Hawthorne-like excavationof America’s historical penchant for finding feast in the abnormal,for tyrannizing the “other”—a tradition that, as Huangreveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Yunte Huang, a Guggenheim Fellow, has taught at Harvard and the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is a Distinguished Professor of English. The author of the Edgar Award-winning biography Charlie Chan and Inseparable, both NBCC finalists, Huang speaks frequently about American popular culture.

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Verlag
WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0871404478
ISBN 13 
9780871404473
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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