States of exception
Subtitle: everyday life and postcolonial identity
By: Keya Ganguly.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: Inroduction: Gunga Din and other anomalies; title: Writing the field; title: The antinomies of everyday life; title: Personal memory and the contradictions of selfhood; title: Food and the habitus; title: The dialectics of ethnic spectatorship.