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Author:

Ganguly, Keya.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xi, 214 p. ; 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.
United States--Ethnic relations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-209) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780816637171 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816637172 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816637164 (hard : alk. paper)
0816637164 (hard : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)44650763

LCCN:

00010327

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)