Life and words: violence and the descent into the ordinary /

Das, Veena

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

9780195687583

303.62 / DAS/L
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