States of exception [electronic resource] : everyday life and postcolonial identity / Keya Ganguly.
Publication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.Description: xi, 214 p. ; 24 cmSubject(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
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- E184.E2 G36 2001eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-209) and index.
Inroduction: Gunga Din 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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