Chang and Eng reconnected : the original Siamese twins in American culture
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Chang and Eng reconnected : the original Siamese twins in American culture
Temple University Press, 2012
- : hbk
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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 Mutter 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
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