The Resource Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history, Yunte Huang
Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history, Yunte Huang
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- Summary
- "With wry humor, Shakespearean profundity, and trenchant insight, Yunte Huang brings to life the story of America's most famous nineteenth-century Siamese twins. Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were "discovered" in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Bringing an Asian American perspective to this almost implausible story, Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum exhibits but later as financially savvy showmen who gained their freedom and traveled the backroads of rural America to bring "entertainment" to the Jacksonian mobs. Their rise from subhuman, 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 a Hawthorne-like excavation of America's historical penchant for finding feast in the abnormal, for tyrannizing the "other"--A tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself."--Publisher's description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxvi, 388 pages
- Contents
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- In Siam. Siam ; The Chinese twins ; Cholera ; The king and us ; Departure
- First years. A curiosity in Boston ; The monster, or not ; Gotham city ; The city of brotherly love ; Knocking at the gate ; Racial freaks ; Sentimental education
- America on the road. The great eclipse ; A satirical tale ; The Lynnfield battle ; An intimate rebellion ; Old dominion ; Emancipation ; A parable ; America on the road ; The deep south ; Head bumps
- Look homeward, angel. Wilkesboro ; Traphill ; A universal truth ; Foursome ; Mount Airy, or Monticello ; The age of humbugs ; Minstrel freaks
- The Civil War and beyond. Seeing the elephant ; Reconstruction ; The last radiance of the setting sun ; Afterlife
- Epilogue: Mayberry, USA
- Isbn
- 9781631495458
- Label
- Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
- Title
- Inseparable
- Title remainder
- the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
- Statement of responsibility
- Yunte Huang
- Subject
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- Biographies
- Biography
- Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874
- Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874
- Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874
- Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874
- Conjoined twins
- Conjoined twins -- United States -- Biography
- 1800-1899
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies | Asian American Studies
- United States
- Conjoined twins -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Biographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "With wry humor, Shakespearean profundity, and trenchant insight, Yunte Huang brings to life the story of America's most famous nineteenth-century Siamese twins. Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were "discovered" in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Bringing an Asian American perspective to this almost implausible story, Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum exhibits but later as financially savvy showmen who gained their freedom and traveled the backroads of rural America to bring "entertainment" to the Jacksonian mobs. Their rise from subhuman, 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 a Hawthorne-like excavation of America's historical penchant for finding feast in the abnormal, for tyrannizing the "other"--A tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself."--Publisher's description
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Huang, Yunte
- Dewey number
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- 616/.043092
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QM691.B86
- LC item number
- H83 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Bunker, Chang
- Bunker, Eng
- Bunker, Chang
- Bunker, Eng
- Conjoined twins
- Conjoined twins
- HISTORY
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Conjoined twins
- United States
- Label
- Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history, Yunte Huang
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-380) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- In Siam. Siam ; The Chinese twins ; Cholera ; The king and us ; Departure -- First years. A curiosity in Boston ; The monster, or not ; Gotham city ; The city of brotherly love ; Knocking at the gate ; Racial freaks ; Sentimental education -- America on the road. The great eclipse ; A satirical tale ; The Lynnfield battle ; An intimate rebellion ; Old dominion ; Emancipation ; A parable ; America on the road ; The deep south ; Head bumps -- Look homeward, angel. Wilkesboro ; Traphill ; A universal truth ; Foursome ; Mount Airy, or Monticello ; The age of humbugs ; Minstrel freaks -- The Civil War and beyond. Seeing the elephant ; Reconstruction ; The last radiance of the setting sun ; Afterlife -- Epilogue: Mayberry, USA
- Control code
- ocn988285730
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxvi, 388 pages
- Isbn
- 9781631495458
- Lccn
- 2017055799
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)988285730
- Label
- Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history, Yunte Huang
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-380) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- In Siam. Siam ; The Chinese twins ; Cholera ; The king and us ; Departure -- First years. A curiosity in Boston ; The monster, or not ; Gotham city ; The city of brotherly love ; Knocking at the gate ; Racial freaks ; Sentimental education -- America on the road. The great eclipse ; A satirical tale ; The Lynnfield battle ; An intimate rebellion ; Old dominion ; Emancipation ; A parable ; America on the road ; The deep south ; Head bumps -- Look homeward, angel. Wilkesboro ; Traphill ; A universal truth ; Foursome ; Mount Airy, or Monticello ; The age of humbugs ; Minstrel freaks -- The Civil War and beyond. Seeing the elephant ; Reconstruction ; The last radiance of the setting sun ; Afterlife -- Epilogue: Mayberry, USA
- Control code
- ocn988285730
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxvi, 388 pages
- Isbn
- 9781631495458
- Lccn
- 2017055799
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)988285730
Subject
- Biographies
- Biography
- Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874
- Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874
- Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874
- Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874
- Conjoined twins
- Conjoined twins -- United States -- Biography
- 1800-1899
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies | Asian American Studies
- United States
- Conjoined twins -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Biographies
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