Life and words: violence and the descent into the ordinary/ Veena Das
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TextPublication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006Description: xiv, 281 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780195687583Subject(s): Violence | Manners and customs | Politics and governmentDDC classification: 303.62
Contents:
Introduction --
The figure of the abducted woman : the citizen as sexed --
Language and body : transactions and the construction of pain --
The act of witnessing : violence, gender, and subjectivity --
Boundaries, violence, and the work of time --
Thinking of time and subjectivity --
In the region of rumor --
The force of the local --
The signature of the state : the paradox of illegibility --
Three portraits of grief and mourning --
Revisiting trauma, testimony, and political community.
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Introduction --
The figure of the abducted woman : the citizen as sexed --
Language and body : transactions and the construction of pain --
The act of witnessing : violence, gender, and subjectivity --
Boundaries, violence, and the work of time --
Thinking of time and subjectivity --
In the region of rumor --
The force of the local --
The signature of the state : the paradox of illegibility --
Three portraits of grief and mourning --
Revisiting trauma, testimony, and political community.
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