DESCRIPTION :
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.
PRODUCT DETAILS :
| ISBN : 9780871404473 |
| BY (AUTHOR) Huang, Yunte |
| PUBLISHER : WW Norton & Co |
PUBLICATION DATE : April 03, 2018 |
| COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United States |
IMPRINT : Liveright Publishing Corporation |
| LANGUAGE : English |
AGE : General |
| PRODUCT FORM : Hardback |
DIMENSION : 244 mm x 165 mm
WEIGHT : 725 g
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies
History & Archaeology
The Arts
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