States of exception : everyday life and postcolonial identity / Keya Ganguly

Author:: Ganguly, Keya
Published:: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2001]
Copyright Date:: ©2001
Physical Description:: xi, 214 pages ; 23 cm

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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.

Subject(s):

East Indian Americans—Ethnic identity
East Indian Americans—Psychology
East Indian Americans—Social life and customs
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Memory (Philosophy)
Postcolonialism—Social aspects—United States
Postcolonialism—United States—Psychological aspects
United States—Ethnic relations

ISBN:

0816637164 (hard : alk. paper)
0816637172 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Note:

Includes index.

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