Cynthia Wu

Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781439908686
• ISBN-10: 1439908680
• Artikelnr.: 35207275

Autorenporträt

Cynthia Wu is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University at Buffalo.

Inhaltsangabe

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