 | States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity Subjects: 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 --; 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 JerseyOCoa group to whom the author, as a daughter of two of its members, enjoyed unprecedented access." |
