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States of exception : everyday life and postcolonial identity
- Title
- States of exception : everyday life and postcolonial identity / Keya Ganguly.
- Author
- Ganguly, Keya.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2001], ©2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | E184.E2 G36 2001 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 214 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- 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
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-209) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Gunga Gin and Other Anomalies -- 1. Writing the Field -- 2. The Antinomies of Everyday Life -- 3. Personal Memory and the Contradictions of Selfhood -- 4. Food and the Habitus -- 5. The Dialectics of Ethnic Spectatorship.
- ISBN
- 0816637164 (hard : alk. paper)
- 0816637172 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00010327
- OCLC
- ocm44650763
- SCSB-4093492
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries