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1 online resource (1 audio file (14hr., 27 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by PJ Ochlan. |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874.
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Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874.
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Conjoined twins -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Conjoined twins -- United States -- Biography.
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Ochlan, P. J., narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781684410613 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1684410614 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12160070 |
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