Chang and Eng reconnected : the original Siamese twins in American culture

Author(s)

• Wu, Cynthia

Bibliographic Information

Chang and Eng reconnected : the original Siamese twins in American culture

Cynthia Wu

Temple University Press, 2012

• : hbk

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Considering Chang and Eng's body in America from the nineteenth century to the present

Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Locating Material Traces in the Archives 1 Labor and Ownership in the American South 2 The Mystery of Their Union 3 Strange Incursions into Medical Science at the Mütter Museum Part II: Reading Literature and Visual Cultures 4 Late-Nineteenth-Century Visions of Conflict and Consensus 5 Asian Americans Bare/Bear the Hyphen 6 Disciplining and Normalizing the Woman Subject in Contemporary Literature and Film Part III: Observing and Participating 7 Our Esteemed Ancestors Epilogue: Alone or Together? Notes Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BC10572745
• ISBN:
  • 9781439908686
• LCCN: 2012008892
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Philadelphia
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 203 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS217.C63
  • DC23 : 810.9/351
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Conjoined twins in literature
  • LCSH : American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874 -- In literature
  • LCSH : Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874 -- In literature
  • LCSH : Literature and society -- United States
  • LCSH : Popular culture -- United States
  • LCSH : Asian Americans in literature