{"id":44888,"date":"2016-05-15T20:52:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T20:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44888"},"modified":"2016-05-15T20:52:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T20:52:21","slug":"puddnhead-wilson-and-those-extraordinary-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44888","title":{"rendered":"Pudd&#8217;nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/broadviewpress.com\/product\/puddnhead-wilson-and-those-extraordinary-twins\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pudd&#8217;nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadviewpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Broadview Press<\/a><br \/>\n2016-05-04 (Originally Published in 1894)<br \/>\n304 pages<br \/>\n5\u00bd&#8221; x 8\u00bd&#8221;<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9781554812660<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Twain\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Twain<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edited by:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/english.ucdavis.edu\/people\/hlhsu\" target=\"_blank\">Hsuan L. Hsu<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Davis<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/broadviewpress.com\/product\/puddnhead-wilson-and-those-extraordinary-twins\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/broadviewpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/9781554812660.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two narratives published together in <em>The Tragedy of Pudd\u2019nhead Wilson<\/em> and the <em>Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins<\/em> are overflowing with spectacular events. Twain shows us conjoined twins, babies exchanged in the cradle, acts of cross-dressing and racial masquerade, duels, a lynching, and a murder mystery. <em>Pudd\u2019head Wilson<\/em> tells the story of babies, one of mixed race and the other white, exchanged in their cradles, while <em>Those Extraordinary Twins<\/em> is a farcical tale of conjoined twins. Although the stories were long viewed as flawed narratives, their very incongruities offer a fascinating portrait of key issues\u2014race, disability, and immigration\u2014facing the United States in the final decades of the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n<p>Hsuan Hsu\u2019s introduction traces the history of literary critics\u2019 response to these works, from the confusion of Twain\u2019s contemporaries to the keen interest of current scholars. Extensive historical appendices provide contemporary materials on race discourse, legal contexts, and the composition and initial reception of the texts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pudd&#8217;nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins Broadview Press 2016-05-04 (Originally Published in 1894) 304 pages 5\u00bd&#8221; x 8\u00bd&#8221; Paperback ISBN: 9781554812660 Mark Twain Edited by: Hsuan L. Hsu, Associate Professor of English University of California, Davis The two narratives published together in The Tragedy of Pudd\u2019nhead Wilson and the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,6462,20],"tags":[849,22487,22486,149],"class_list":["post-44888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-broadview-press","tag-hsuan-hsu","tag-hsuan-l-hsu","tag-mark-twain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44888"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46989,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44888\/revisions\/46989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}