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States of exception : everyday life and postcolonial identity
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- Creator
- Keya Ganguly
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2001]
- ©2001
- Physical Details
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- xi, 214 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0816692351, 0816637172, 9780816692354, 9780816637164, 9780816637171, 0816637164
- OCLC
- ocn614925376, ocm44650763
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-209) and index.
- Introduction: Gunga Gin 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
Subjects
- 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.