Spectacle of Twins in American Literature and Popular Culture

Karen Dillon teaches literature and writing at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois, where she specializes in American and African-American literature. She lives in Carlinville.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A History of Twins in the United StatesOne—“A Chill of Similitude”: Disturbing Likeness in Photographic and Literary Representations of TwinsTwo—The Sexual Fantasy of Twins: Twincest and Triangulated DesireThree—Keeping It in the Family: Twins and Race in William Melvin Kelley’s dem and Toni Morrison’s ParadiseFour—Twins as Goodwill Cultural Ambassadors: The Educational Goals of Lucy Fitch Perkins’s Foreign Twins SeriesFive—The Twin Companion: Twins Branding in Juvenile MediaSix—Wombmates for Life: Inside the Subculture of TwinshipConclusionChapter NotesBibliographyIndex