Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
Yunte Huang
ISBN: | 9781631493850 |
Publisher: | Liveright Publishing |
Published: | 3 April, 2018 |
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Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
Yunte Huang
Twins Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, were "discovered" in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Yunte Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum exhibits but later as financially savvy showmen. Their rise from 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, for tyrannising the "other"-a tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself.
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