Chang and Eng reconnected : the original Siamese twins in American culture / Cynthia Wu.
- Wu, Cynthia, 1973-
- Date:
- 2012
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.
Physical description
xiii, 203 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Contributors
Contents
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-196) and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineDDT.U.6Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9781439908686
- 1439908680
- 9781439908693
- 1439908699
- 9781439908709
- 1439908702