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Author Ganguly, Keya.

Title States of exception : everyday life and postcolonial identity / Keya Ganguly
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description xi, 214 pages ; 24 cm
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
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-209) and index
Bibliography Includes index
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.
SUBJECT United States -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
LC no. 00010327
ISBN 0816637164 hardcover alkaline paper
0816637172 paperback alkaline paper