States of exception [[electronic resource] ] : everyday life and postcolonial identity / / Keya Ganguly
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| Autore: |
Ganguly Keya
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| Titolo: |
States of exception [[electronic resource] ] : everyday life and postcolonial identity / / Keya Ganguly
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2001 |
| 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 |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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.: | 9910452220803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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