Format:
Book
Author:
Huang, Yunte, author.
Title:
Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history / Yunte Huang.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Description:
xxvi, 388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:
Huang brings to life the story of America's most famous nineteenth-century Siamese twins, 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 an excavation of America's historical penchant for finding feast in the abnormal.
Subjects:
Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874.
Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874.
Conjoined twins -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Conjoined twins -- United States -- Biography.
Genre:
Biographies.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN:
2017055799
ISBN:
9780871404473 (hardcover)
0871404478 (hardcover)
Other Number:
988285730
System Availability:
11
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3594097
Call Number:
616/.043092 B
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
11