The Lives of Chang & Eng
Author | : Joseph Andrew Orser |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1469618303 |
Lives of Chang and Eng: Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America
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Author | : Joseph Andrew Orser |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1469618303 |
Lives of Chang and Eng: Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America
Author | : Yunte Huang |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0871404478 |
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.
Author | : Cynthia Wu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781439908686 |
Considering Chang and Eng's body in America from the nineteenth century to the present
Author | : Joseph Andrew Orser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781469642338 |
Lives of Chang and Eng: Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America
Author | : Mo Rocca |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2021-11-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1501197630 |
From popular TV correspondent and writer Rocca comes a charmingly irreverent and rigorously researched book that celebrates the dead people who made life worth living.
Author | : Alice Domurat Dreger |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2005-10-31 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780674018259 |
One of Us views conjoined twinning and other “abnormalities” from the point of view of people living with such anatomies, and considers these issues within the larger historical context of anatomical politics. This deeply thought-provoking and compassionate work exposes the extent of the social frame upon which we construct the “normal.”
Author | : Darin Strauss |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2011-05-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0679643826 |
In this powerful, unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Darin Strauss examines the far-reaching consequences of the tragic moment that has shadowed his whole life. In his last month of high school, he was behind the wheel of his dad's Oldsmobile, driving with friends, heading off to play mini-golf. Then: a classmate swerved in front of his car. The collision resulted in her death. With piercing insight and stark prose, Darin Strauss leads us on a deeply personal, immediate, and emotional journey—graduating high school, going away to college, starting his writing career, falling in love with his future wife, becoming a father. Along the way, he takes a hard look at loss and guilt, maturity and accountability, hope and, at last, acceptance. The result is a staggering, uplifting tour de force. Look for special features inside, including an interview with Colum McCann.
Author | : Darin Strauss |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780613346382 |
Bestseller
Author | : Cathy Park Hong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Deft, edgy, dystopic, assiduous in their loathing of the famous fascination of the exotic, Cathy Park Hong's poems burst forth in searing flashes of ire and insight. She gives no quarter to either Korean or English. Without creative interference, without mistranslation, language to her is history's 'cracked' thorax, a resented 'dictation,' and a constant personal embarrassment. Her poems are 'islands without flags,' 'the ocean a slate gray/ along the wolf-hued sand.' TRANSLATING MO'UM is striking both for its stabbingly original, vinegary images and its ruthless honesty: Hong being that rare thing, a poet as rigorous in her self-scrutiny as in her cultural confrontations"-Calvin Bedient.
Author | : Cynthia Wu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781439908693 |
Conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker have fascinated the world since the 19th century. In her captivating book, Chang and Eng Reconnected, Cynthia Wu traces the "Original Siamese Twins" through the terrain of American culture, showing how their inseparability underscored tensions between individuality and collectivity in the American popular imagination. Using letters, medical documents and exhibits, literature, art, film, and family lore, Wu provides a trans-historical analysis that presents the Bunkers as both a material presence and as metaphor. She also shows how the twins figure in representations of race, disability, and science in fictional narratives about nation building. As astute entrepreneurs, the twins managed their own lives; nonetheless, as Chang and Eng Reconnected shows, American culture has always viewed them through the multiple lenses of difference.