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  1. Chang and Eng reconnected
    the original Siamese twins in American culture
    Autor*in: Wu, Cynthia
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Temple Univ. Press, Philadelphia

    Standort:
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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  2. Chang and Eng Reconnected
    The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture
    Autor*in: Wu, Cynthia
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Temple University Press, Philadelphia

    Conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker have fascinated the world since the nineteenth century. In her captivating book, Chang and Eng Reconnected, Cynthia Wu traces the "Original Siamese Twins" through the terrain of American culture, showing how their... mehr

    Standort:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Signatur:
    Online-Ressource
    Fernleihe:
    keine Fernleihe

     

    Conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker have fascinated the world since the nineteenth century. In her captivating book, Chang and Eng Reconnected, Cynthia Wu traces the "Original Siamese Twins" through the terrain of American culture, showing how their inseparability underscored tensions between individuality and collectivity in the American popular imagination. Using letters, medical documents and exhibits, literature, art, film, and family lore, Wu provides a trans-historical analysis that presents the Bunkers as both a material presence and as metaphor. She also shows ho

     
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1299834094; 9781439908693; 9781299834095
    Umfang: Online-Ressource (219 p)
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    Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Locating Material Traces in the Archives; 1. Labor and Ownership in the American South; 2. The Mystery of Their Union; 3. Strange Incursions into Medical Science at the Mütter Museum; Part II : Reading Literature and Visual Cultures; 4. Late-Nineteenth-Century Visions of Conflict and Consensus; 5. Asian Americans Bare/Bear the Hyphen; 6. Disciplining and Normalizing the Woman Subject in Contemporary Literature and Film; Part III : Observing and Participating; 7. Our Esteemed Ancestors; Epilogue: Alone or Together?; Notes; Index
  3. Chang and Eng reconnected
    the original Siamese twins in American culture
    Autor*in: Wu, Cynthia
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Temple University Press, Philadelphia, Pa

    Pt. 1. Material traces in the archive -- Labor and ownership in the American South -- Solving the mystery of their union -- Strange Incursions into medical science at the Mutter Museum -- Pt. 2. Reading literature and visual cultures --... mehr

    Standort:
    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    Signatur:
    2013 A 8771
    Fernleihe:
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe

    Standort:
    Universität Konstanz, Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum (KIM)
    Fernleihe:
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe

     

    Pt. 1. Material traces in the archive -- Labor and ownership in the American South -- Solving the mystery of their union -- Strange Incursions into medical science at the Mutter Museum -- Pt. 2. Reading literature and visual cultures -- Late-nineteenth-century visions of conflict and consensus -- Asian Americans bare/bear the hyphen -- Disciplining and normalizing the woman subject in contemporary literature and film Pt. 3. Observing and participating -- Our esteemed ancestors

     
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9781439908693; 9781439908686
    Schlagworte: American literature; Conjoined twins in literature; American literature; Literature and society; Popular culture; Asian Americans in literature
    Weitere Schlagworte: Bunker, Chang (1811-1874); Bunker, Eng (1811-1874)
    Umfang: XIII, 203 S., Ill., 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-196) and index

    Pt. 1. Material traces in the archive -- Labor and ownership in the American South -- Solving the mystery of their union -- Strange Incursions into medical science at the Mutter Museum -- Pt. 2. Reading literature and visual cultures -- Late-nineteenth-century visions of conflict and consensus -- Asian Americans bare/bear the hyphen -- Disciplining and normalizing the woman subject in contemporary literature and film Pt. 3. Observing and participating -- Our esteemed ancestors.