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Chang and Eng Reconnected The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture / Cynthia Wu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wu, Cynthia, 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874--In literature.
- Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874--In literature.
- Asian Americans in literature.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Literature and society--United States.
- Literature and society.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Conjoined twins in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker have fascinated the world since the nineteenth century. In her captivating book, Chang and Eng Reconnected, Cynthia Wu traces the "Original Siamese Twins" through the terrain of American culture, showing how their inseparability underscored tensions between individuality and collectivity in the American popular imagination. Using letters, medical documents and exhibits, literature, art, film, and family lore, Wu provides a trans-historical analysis that presents the Bunkers as both a material presence and as metaphor. She also shows ho
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. Material traces in the archive
- Labor and ownership in the American South
- Solving the mystery of their union
- Strange Incursions into medical science at the Mutter Museum
- Pt. 2. Reading literature and visual cultures
- Late-nineteenth-century visions of conflict and consensus
- Asian Americans bare/bear the hyphen
- Disciplining and normalizing the woman subject in contemporary literature and film Pt. 3. Observing and participating
- Our esteemed ancestors.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781439908709
- 1439908702
- OCLC:
- 809775330
- Publisher Number:
- heb40337 hdl
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