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Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history / Yunte Huang.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: SoundSoundPublisher: Minneapolis, MN : HighBridge Company, [2018]Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 12 audio discs (approximately 14.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • spoken word
Media type:
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
ISBN:
  • 9781684410606
  • 1684410606
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Read by P. J. Ochlan.Summary: A portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker, twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were 'discovered' in Siam in 1824. Their rise from subhuman, freak-show celebrities to rich southern gentry; their marriage to two white sisters, resulting in 21 children; and their owning of slaves, is a Hawthorne-like excavation of America's historical penchant for the abnormal, for tyrannizing the 'other', a tradition that becomes inseparable from American history itself.
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Adult Audiobook Adult Audiobook Main Library Audiobook BIOGRAPHY Bunker, C. H874 Available 33111009117363
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Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were "discovered" in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Bringing an Asian American perspective to this almost implausible story, Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum exhibits but later as financially savvy showmen who gained their freedom and traveled the backroads of rural America to bring "entertainment" to the Jacksonian mobs. Their rise from subhuman, 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 a Hawthorne-like excavation of America's historical penchant for finding feast in the abnormal, for tyrannizing the "other"-a tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself.

Read by P. J. Ochlan.

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A portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker, twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were 'discovered' in Siam in 1824. Their rise from subhuman, freak-show celebrities to rich southern gentry; their marriage to two white sisters, resulting in 21 children; and their owning of slaves, is a Hawthorne-like excavation of America's historical penchant for the abnormal, for tyrannizing the 'other', a tradition that becomes inseparable from American history itself.

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