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_aLife and words: violence and the descent into the ordinary / _cVeena Das; foreword by Stanley Cavell |
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_aNew Delhi: _bOxford University Press, _c2006. |
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300 | _a281 p. | ||
440 | _a"Philip E. Lilienthal book" | ||
505 | _aIntroduction -- 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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