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Author:
Wu, Cynthia, 1973-
Title:
Chang and Eng reconnected : the original Siamese twins in American culture / Cynthia Wu.
Publisher:
Temple University Press,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
xiii, 203 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Conjoined twins in literature.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Bunker, Chang,--1811-1874.--In literature.
Bunker, Eng,--1811-1874.--In literature.
Literature and society--United States.
Popular culture--United States.
Asian Americans in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN:
1439908702 (e-book)
9781439908709 (e-book)
1439908699 (paper : alk. paper)
9781439908693 (paper : alk. paper)
1439908680 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781439908686 (hardback : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)777654628
LCCN:
2012008892
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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