Chang and Eng Reconnected - The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture

Informationen zum Autor Cynthia Wu is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University at Buffalo. Klappentext Considering Chang and Eng's body in America from the nineteenth century to the present Zusammenfassung Considering Chang and Eng's body in America from the nineteenth century to the present Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Locating Material Traces in the Archives1 Labor and Ownership in the American South2 The Mystery of Their Union3 Strange Incursions into Medical Science at the Mütter MuseumPart II: Reading Literature and Visual Cultures4 Late-Nineteenth-Century Visions of Conflict and Consensus5 Asian Americans Bare/Bear the Hyphen6 Disciplining and Normalizing the Woman Subject in Contemporary Literature and FilmPart III: Observing and Participating7 Our Esteemed AncestorsEpilogue: Alone or Together?NotesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia Wu
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.08.2012
• EAN: 9781439908686
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-0868-6
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Behinderung: soziale Aspekte