Chang and Eng reconnected [electronic resource] : the original Siamese twins in American literature and culture / Cynthia Wu.
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TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)ISBN: - 9781439908709
- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities
- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American
- Asian Americans in literature
- Popular culture -- United States
- Literature and society -- United States
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Conjoined twins in literature
- Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874 -- In literature
- Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874 -- In literature
- PS217.C63 W8 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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