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States of exception : everyday life and postcolonial identity / Keya Ganguly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ganguly, Keya.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Indian Americans--Ethnic identity.
- East Indian Americans.
- East Indian Americans--Psychology.
- East Indian Americans--Social life and customs.
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- Memory (Philosophy).
- Postcolonialism--Social aspects--United States.
- Postcolonialism.
- Postcolonialism--United States--Psychological aspects.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A philosophical anthropology of everyday experience, this book is also a deeply informed and thought-provoking reflection on the work of cultural critique. States of Exception looks into a community of immigrants from India living in southern New Jersey-a group to whom the author, as a daughter of two of its members, enjoyed unprecedented access.
- Contents:
- Inroduction: Gunga Din and other anomalies
- Writing the field
- The antinomies of everyday life
- Personal memory and the contradictions of selfhood
- Food and the habitus
- The dialectics of ethnic spectatorship.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-209) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9235-1
- OCLC:
- 614925376
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