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228 Pages·2001·0.959 MB·English
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by Keya Ganguly| 2001| 228 pages| 0.959| English

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Postcolonial Studies/Cultural Studies Explores the conflict between capitalism and tradition in an immigrant community. 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. Her position allows Keya Ganguly to approach the culture of a middle-class group (albeit one that is marginalized by racial prejudice), while the group's relatively comfortable and protected style of life offers unusual insight into the concept of the everyday and the sense in which a seemingly commonplace existence can be understood as in crisis: a state of exception. Thus, Ganguly draws on the work of the Frankfurt School, particularly Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, to explore the possibilities of a dialectical critique of the everyday-a state of exception informing ordinary yet crisis-ridden narratives of the self under late capitalism. Keya Ganguly is assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches cultural studies, film, postcolonialism, Marxism, and critical theory. She is a coeditor of the journal Cultural Critique (see page 43). Translation Inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

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Author:Keya Ganguly
Publication Year:2001
ISBN:9780816637171
Pages:228
Language:English
File Size:0.959
Format:PDF
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