In this āexcellentā portrait of Americaās famed nineteenth-century Siamese twins, celebrated biographer Yunte Huang discovers in the conjoined lives of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811ā1874) a trenchant ācomment on the times in which we liveā (Wall Street Journal). āUncovering ironies, paradoxes and examples of how Chang and Eng subverted what Leslie Fiedler called āthe tyranny of the normalā ā (BBC), Huang depicts the twinsā implausible route to assimilation after their ādiscoveryā 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 āextraordinaryā (New York Times), Hawthorne-like excavation of Americaās historical penchant for tyrannizing the otherāa tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself.
This book title, Inseparable (The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History) - 9781631495458, ISBN: 9781631495458, by Yunte Huang, published by Liveright (April 9, 2019) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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