The lives of Chang and Eng : Siam's twins in nineteenth-century America / Joseph Andrew Orser.

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Orser, Joseph Andrew [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781469618326
146961832X
9781469618319
1469618311

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lives of Chang and Eng : Siam's twins in nineteenth-century America.DDC classification:

616/.043 23

LOC classification:

QM691.B86 .O77 2014eb

NLM classification:

QS 675

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Contents:

Introduction: the monster now before us -- In and Chun -- Under their own direction -- The connected twins -- Asiatic Americans -- Southern curiosities -- Over their dead bodies -- Epilogue: the past rears its head.

Summary: Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, exhibiting their extraordinary bodies as 'freaks of nature' and 'Oriental curiosities'. The brothers constantly professed their normality - they spoke English, attended church, became American citizens, and backed the Confederacy during the Civil War. Yet in life and death, Americans saw the brothers as 'monstrosities', an affront they were unable to escape. This book chronicles the twins' history.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, exhibiting their extraordinary bodies as 'freaks of nature' and 'Oriental curiosities'. The brothers constantly professed their normality - they spoke English, attended church, became American citizens, and backed the Confederacy during the Civil War. Yet in life and death, Americans saw the brothers as 'monstrosities', an affront they were unable to escape. This book chronicles the twins' history.

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