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

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DESCRIPTION : Twins Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, were "discovered" in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Yu nte Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum exhibits but later as financially savvy showmen. Their rise from 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 an excavation of America's historical penchant for finding feast in the abnormal, for tyrannising the "other"-a tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself. PRODUCT DETAILS : ISBN : 9780871404473 BY (AUTHOR) Huang, Yunte PUBLISHER : WW Norton & Co PUBLICATION DATE : April 03, 2018 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United States IMPRINT : Liveright Publishing Corporation LANGUAGE : English AGE : General PRODUCT FORM : Hardback DIMENSION : 244 mm x 165 mm WEIGHT : 725 g PRODUCT CATEGORY : Biography, Literature & Literary studies History & Archaeology The Arts Show more