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Book Title
Inseparable : the Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
Publication Name
Inseparable
Title
Inseparable
Subtitle
The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American His
Author
Yunte Huang
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
1631495453
EAN
9781631495458
ISBN
9781631495458
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Genre
Family & Relationships, History, Social Science
Topic
United States / 19th Century, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Siblings
Release Date
10/05/2019
Release Year
2019
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.1in
Item Length
0.8in
Item Width
0.5in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Publication Year
2019
Number of Pages
416 Pages

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"An astonishing story, by turns ghastly, hilarious, unnerving, and moving." --Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve In this "excellent" portrait of America's famed nineteenth-century Siamese twins, celebrated biographer Yunte Huang discovers in the conjoined lives of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874) a trenchant "comment on the times in which we live" ( Wall Street Journal ). "Uncovering ironies, paradoxes and examples of how Chang and Eng subverted what Leslie Fiedler called 'the tyranny of the normal'" (BBC), Huang depicts the twins' implausible route to assimilation after their "discovery" in Siam by a British merchant in 1824 and arrival in Boston as sideshow curiosities in 1829. Their climb from subhuman, freak-show celebrities to rich, southern gentry who profited from entertaining the Jacksonian mobs; 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 "extraordinary" ( New York Times ), Hawthorne-like excavation of America's historical penchant for tyrannizing the other a tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself. 28 black and white illustrations throughout

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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
1631495453
ISBN-13
9781631495458
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11038439141

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Book Title
Inseparable : the Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
Author
Yunte Huang
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / 19th Century, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Siblings
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Family & Relationships, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
416 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
0.8in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.5in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz

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"Excellent.... Mr. Huang compellingly makes his case that racism was a factor in these two self-made gentlemen land owners still being considered, late in life, as nothing more than a Barnumesque "freak show".... It's not difficult to find in this, as Mr. Huang most definitely does, a comment on the times in which we live.", "Excellent.... a complex literary history that mirrors the global story of meetings between east and west. Huang knows the treacherous racial terrain behind the meetings of facts and fictions in American culture [and] the place of "race" in every rendezvous with American history. Learned and playful, Inseparable draws on Huang's personal experiences and his astonishing literary and historical knowledge.", Many of the subjects are timely today, such as the racial injustices the twins faced as Asian immigrants, often doubly worse for them due to their conjoined state.... Inseparable is an engaging look at the lives of two singular people., Inseparable tells an astonishing story, by turns ghastly, hilarious, unnerving, and moving. Huang is a dazzling writer, bold, energetic, and intellectually alert. His gripping account of the lives of the celebrated Siamese twins Cheng and Eng not only richly illuminates the past of P.T. Barnum and Mark Twain but also probes the racial and sexual politics of the present., In the follow-up to his Edgar Award-winning Charlie Chan biography, Huang uncovers ironies, paradoxes and examples of how Chang and Eng subverted what Leslie Fiedler called 'the tyranny of the normal., Inseparable, Yunte Huang's exuberant and vivid account of the 'original Siamese twins,' examines 19th century American attitudes toward race and sex that resonate today -- a time when immigrants, people of color, those with disabilities and others are denied their stories and denied their humanity.... By sharing his own experiences, [Yuang] reveals the poignant commonalities of immigrants across time and place, strangers making sense of a strange land, determined to make a better life for themselves and their children., Chang and Eng waltzed, arm and arm, indivisible, across a brutally divided America. Huang's spellbinding account tells their story with a complexity, and sensitivity, with which it has never been told before., Moving, wise, and wide-ranging, Inseparable is the poignant story of what it means to live in a diverse culture that strains after uniformity. As in Charlie Chan, Yunte Huang has once again found a perfect subject -- perfectly commensurate with his sympathy for American history and the American compulsion to stereotype that which it fails to understand. And so elegantly written, it's impossible to put down., Engrossing.... give[s] an unvarnished look at the degradation and disparagement the brothers had to endure.
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
616.043092
Dewey Edition
23

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