Yunte Huang

Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 (18111874) 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 othera tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781631493850
• Artikelnr.: 59592591

Autorenporträt

Yunte Huang, a Guggenheim Fellow, has taught at Harvard and the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is a Distinguished Professor of English. The author of the Edgar Awardwinning biography Charlie Chan and Inseparable, both NBCC finalists, Huang speaks frequently about American popular culture.