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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. "An astonishing story, by turns ghastly, hilarious, unnerving, and moving."Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve In this "excellent" portrait of Americas famed nineteenth-century Siamese twins, celebrated biographer Yunte Huang discovers in the conjoined lives of Chang and Eng Bunker (18111874) a trenchant "comment on the times in which we live" (Wall Street Journal). "Uncovering ironies, paradoxes and examples of how Chang and Eng subverted what Leslie Fiedler called 'the tyranny of the normal'" (BBC), Huang depicts the twins implausible route to assimilation after their "discovery" in Siam by a British merchant in 1824 and arrival in Boston as sideshow curiosities in 1829. Their climb from subhuman, freak-show celebrities to rich, southern gentry who profited from entertaining the Jacksonian mobs; their marriage to two white sisters, resulting in twenty-one children; and their owning of slaves, is here not just another sensational biography but an "extraordinary" (New York Times), Hawthorne-like excavation of Americas historical penchant for tyrannizing the other a tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself.28 black and white illustrations throughout With wry humour, Shakespearean profundity and trenchant insight, Yunte Huang brings to life the story of the famous Siamese twins. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781631495458
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