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    Chang and Eng Reconnected
    The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture

    Cynthia Wu (Author)

    9781439908693

    Paperback / softback, published 24 August 2012

    218 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.313 kg

    Considering Chang and Eng's body in America from the nineteenth century to the present

    List of Figures
    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    Part I: Locating Material Traces in the Archives
    1 Labor and Ownership in the American South
    2 The Mystery of Their Union
    3 Strange Incursions into Medical Science at the MÜtter Museum

    Part II: Reading Literature and Visual Cultures
    4 Late-Nineteenth-Century Visions of Conflict and Consensus
    5 Asian Americans Bare/Bear the Hyphen
    6 Disciplining and Normalizing the Woman Subject in Contemporary Literature and Film

    Part III: Observing and Participating
    7 Our Esteemed Ancestors

    Epilogue: Alone or Together?

    Notes
    Index
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