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Chang and Eng reconnected : the original Siamese twins in American culture

Title: Chang and Eng reconnected : the original Siamese twins in American culture / Cynthia Wu.
Author: Wu, Cynthia, 1973-
Publication: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.

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Description

xiii, 203 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-196) and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 12-6878

ISBN

9781439908686 (hardback : alk. paper)
1439908680 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781439908693 (paper : alk. paper)
1439908699 (paper : alk. paper)
9781439908709 (e-book)
1439908702 (e-book)

LCCN

2012008892

OCLC

777654628

Author

Wu, Cynthia, 1973-

Title

Chang and Eng reconnected : the original Siamese twins in American culture / Cynthia Wu.

Imprint

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-196) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 12-6878

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