Inseparable - The Original Siamise Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History

Informationen zum Autor Yunte Huang , a Guggenheim Fellow, has taught at Harvard and the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is a Distinguished Professor of English. The author of the Edgar Award–winning biography Charlie Chan and Inseparable , both NBCC finalists, Huang speaks frequently about American popular culture. Klappentext 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. Yunte 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. Zusammenfassung With wry humour, Shakespearean profundity and trenchant insight, Yunte Huang brings to life the story of the famous Siamese twins.

Product details

• Authors: Yunte Huang, Yunte (University of California Huang, Huang Yunte
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780871404473
• ISBN: 978-0-87140-447-3
• Series: Liveright; Liveright
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, Other performing arts, History of the Americas, Biography: historical, political and military