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“This Alarming Generosity”: White Elephants and the Logic of the Gift

Ross Bullen
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 747–773.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437207
Published: 01 December 2011
...Ross Bullen In this essay, Bullen examines the literary and cultural history of the term white elephant —a phrase that refers to a burdensome object that is impossible to sell or give away—by tracing its origin in the American lexicon to the United States' diplomatic relations with Siam...
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The Siamese Twins in Late-Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Conflict and Reconciliation

Cynthia Wu
American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 29–55.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-061
Published: 01 March 2008
...Cynthia Wu This essay uses both ethnic studies and disability studies to read two late-nineteenth-century American texts that refer to Chang and Eng Bunker, conjoined twin entertainers from the country then known as Siam who were popularly called the Siamese Twins. Mark Twain's sketch “Personal...
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“A Handful of Syllables Thrown Back across the Water”: Dictée ’s Aesthetic Legacy and Thai American Poetics

Jasmine An
American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 59–88.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10345365
Published: 01 March 2023
... . 1985 . In the Mirror: Literature and Politics in Siam in the American Era . Bangkok : Duang kamol . Baker Chris , and Phongpaichit Pasuk . 2014 . A History of Thailand . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Cha Theresa Hak Kyung . 1982 . Dictée . Berkeley...
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Index to Volume 83

American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 893–914.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1503866
Published: 01 December 2011
...,” by Jennifer L. Brady, 719–46. “Domesticity beyond Sentiment: Edith Wharton, Decoration, and Divorce,” by Susan Fraiman, 479–507. September 11. “Organic Shrapnel: Affect and Aesthetics in September 11 Fic- tion,” by Rachel Greenwald Smith, 153–74. Siam. “‘This Alarming Generosity...
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Embodied Eloquence, the Sumner Assault, and the Transatlantic Cable

Christopher Hanlon
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 489–518.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-022
Published: 01 September 2010
... rhymes, now directly addressing the North Ameri- can reader, “That wire will draw close you and me / As those famed twins of Siam.”35 An earlier anonymous poem from England, published in the Lib- erator of January 1853, similarly juxtaposes the telegraph as a signal of peace...
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