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States of exception [electronic resource] : everyday life and postcolonial identity / Keya Ganguly.

By: Ganguly, Keya.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2001Description: xi, 214 p. ; 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 relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.891/4073 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.