Life and words: violence and the descent into the ordinary /
Veena Das; foreword by Stanley Cavell
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006.
- 281 p.
- "Philip E. Lilienthal book" .
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