Chang and Eng reconnected : the original Siamese twins in American culture / Cynthia Wu.

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.

xiii, 203 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Pt. 1. Material traces in the archive -- Labor and ownership in the American South -- Solving the mystery of their union -- Strange Incursions into medical science at the Mutter Museum -- Pt. 2. Reading literature and visual cultures -- Late-nineteenth-century visions of conflict and consensus -- Asian Americans bare/bear the hyphen -- Disciplining and normalizing the woman subject in contemporary literature and film Pt. 3. Observing and participating -- Our esteemed ancestors.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-196) and index.