Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (786 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0871404478 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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. About the Author Yunte Huang is a Guggenheim Fellow and a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Having come of age in China as a student in the time of Tiananmen, Huang now lives in Santa Barbara, California. He is the author of Transpacific Imaginations and Charlie Chan, which won the 2011 Edgar Award and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
He is the author of Transpacific Imaginations and Charlie Chan, which won the 2011 Edgar Award and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography. . Yunte Huang is a Guggenheim Fellow and a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Having come of age in China as a student in the time of Tiananmen, Huang
28 illustrations. 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. With wry humor, Shakespearean profundity, and trenchant insight, Yunte Huang brings to life the story of America’s most famous nineteenth-century Siamese twins. Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this l