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Autore: | Ganguly Keya |
Titolo: | States of exception : everyday life and postcolonial identity / / Keya Ganguly |
Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2001 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.891/4073 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Ethnic relations |
Note generali: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-209) and index. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-209) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | A philosophical anthropology of everyday experience, this book is also a deeply informed and thought-provoking reflection on the work of cultural critique. States of Exception looks into a community of immigrants from India living in southern New Jersey-a group to whom the author, as a daughter of two of its members, enjoyed unprecedented access. |
Titolo autorizzato: | States of exception |
ISBN: | 0-8166-9235-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910808433203321 |
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