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Chang and Eng Reconnected

Name: Chang and Eng Reconnected
Brand: Temple University Press,U.S.
SKU: 05076079
Price: 84.89 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Cynthia Wu
ISBN: 9781439908686

The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture

Cynthia Wu

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 05076079

Publishers Temple University Press,U.S., September 2012

Conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker have fascinated the world since the 19th century. In her captiv... Full description

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Conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker have fascinated the world since the 19th 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 how the twins figure in representations of race, disability, and science in fictional narratives about nation building. As astute entrepreneurs, the twins managed their own lives; nonetheless, as Chang and Eng Reconnected shows, American culture has always viewed them through the multiple lenses of difference.