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Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in US Drama and Fiction

Clare Callahan
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 394–396.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2647045
Published: 01 June 2014
...Clare Callahan Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture . By Wu Cynthia . Philadelphia : Temple Univ. Press . 2012 . xiii , 203 pp. Cloth , $84.50 ; paper , $28.95 ; e-book , $28.95 . Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth...
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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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“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
... Elephant, as It Was and Is (1873), a text that subtly yet unmistakably aligns the white elephant with the figure of the Siamese twin, suggesting that despite their apparent differences, America and Siam might share a fundamental—and, for Bacon, repulsive—intimacy. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...
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Index to Volume 86 (March 2013–December 2013)

American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 865–886.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2881062
Published: 01 December 2014
..., Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture, 394–96. Chiang, Mark. Review: Jin, Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Cri- tique of US and Chinese Multiculturalisms, 844–47. Index to Volume 86  867 Review...
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The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading

Kate McCullough
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 391–393.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2647036
Published: 01 June 2014
... McCullough, Cornell University DOI 10.1215/00029831-2647036 394  American Literature Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture. By Cynthia Wu. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. 2012. xiii, 203 pp. Cloth, $84.50; paper, $28.95; e-book, $28.95. Racial Indigestion...
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“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” And the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911 Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America

Janet Dean
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 397–400.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2647054
Published: 01 June 2014
...  American Literature Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture. By Cynthia Wu. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. 2012. xiii, 203 pp. Cloth, $84.50; paper, $28.95; e-book, $28.95. Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century. By Kyla Wazana Tomp- kins...
View articletitled, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” And the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911 Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America View PDF for article titled, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” And the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911 Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America
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Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America Righteous Violence: Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance

Jennifer Greeson
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 400–402.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2646919
Published: 01 June 2014
... beyond the strictures of normative social boundaries” (232), an under- taking achieved by all three books discussed here. Kate McCullough, Cornell University DOI 10.1215/00029831-2647036 394  American Literature Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture...
View articletitled, Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America Righteous Violence: Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance View PDF for article titled, Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America Righteous Violence: Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance
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Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing the White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black Jewish Imaginary

Sonnet Retman
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 402–405.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2646928
Published: 01 June 2014
... by all three books discussed here. Kate McCullough, Cornell University DOI 10.1215/00029831-2647036 394  American Literature Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture. By Cynthia Wu. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. 2012. xiii, 203 pp. Cloth, $84.50; paper...
View articletitled, Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing the White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black Jewish Imaginary View PDF for article titled, Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing the White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black Jewish Imaginary
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Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640-1868 Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature Girls and Their Comics: Finding a Female Voice in Comic Book Narrative

Sarah Wadsworth
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 405–408.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2646937
Published: 01 June 2014
...  American Literature Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture. By Cynthia Wu. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. 2012. xiii, 203 pp. Cloth, $84.50; paper, $28.95; e-book, $28.95. Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century. By Kyla Wazana Tomp- kins...
View articletitled, Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640-1868 Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature Girls and Their Comics: Finding a Female Voice in Comic Book Narrative View PDF for article titled, Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640-1868 Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature Girls and Their Comics: Finding a Female Voice in Comic Book Narrative
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Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles against Subjection American Poetry in Performance: From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel Pioneer Performances: Staging the Frontier

Sean Metzger
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 409–411.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2646946
Published: 01 June 2014
... beyond the strictures of normative social boundaries” (232), an under- taking achieved by all three books discussed here. Kate McCullough, Cornell University DOI 10.1215/00029831-2647036 394  American Literature Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture...
View articletitled, Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles against Subjection American Poetry in Performance: From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel Pioneer Performances: Staging the Frontier View PDF for article titled, Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles against Subjection American Poetry in Performance: From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel Pioneer Performances: Staging the Frontier
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The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950 Visionary Women Writers of Chicago’s Black Arts Movement

Margo Natalie Crawford
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 412–414.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2646955
Published: 01 June 2014
... beyond the strictures of normative social boundaries” (232), an under- taking achieved by all three books discussed here. Kate McCullough, Cornell University DOI 10.1215/00029831-2647036 394  American Literature Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture...
View articletitled, The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950 Visionary Women Writers of Chicago’s Black Arts Movement View PDF for article titled, The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950 Visionary Women Writers of Chicago’s Black Arts Movement
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A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 Romances of the White Man’s Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936

Coleman Hutchison
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 414–416.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2646964
Published: 01 June 2014
... by all three books discussed here. Kate McCullough, Cornell University DOI 10.1215/00029831-2647036 394  American Literature Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture. By Cynthia Wu. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. 2012. xiii, 203 pp. Cloth, $84.50; paper...
View articletitled, A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 Romances of the White Man’s Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936 View PDF for article titled, A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 Romances of the White Man’s Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936
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Textual Sentimentalism: Incest and Authorship in Melville's Pierre

Gillian Silverman
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 345–372.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-2-345
Published: 01 June 2002
... of it I am specially delighted at the thought, that those strange, conge- nial feelings, with which after my first voyage, I for the first time read ‘‘Two Years Before the Mast and while so engaged was, as it were, tied & welded to you by a sort of Siamese link of affection- ate sympathy...
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“I Want a Real Coon”: Mark Twain and Late-Nineteenth-Century Ethnic Caricature

Henry B. Wonham
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 117–152.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-117
Published: 01 March 2000
... instances, interchangeably, remaining fully aware that my 5995 AL 72:1 / sheet 153 of 246 terminology brackets an important set of complications. 6 See the ‘‘Personal Habits of the Siamese Twins’’ (1869), ‘‘Those Extraor- dinary Twins...
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