States of exception : everyday life and postcolonial identity

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

Author/creator	Ganguly, Keya
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2001.
Description	xi, 214 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	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.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-209) and index.
LCCN	00010327
ISBN	0816637164 (hard : alk. paper)
ISBN	0816637172 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	E184.E2 G36 2001	✔ Available	Place Hold