Life and words: violence and the descent into the ordinary/
Das, Veena
Life and words: violence and the descent into the ordinary/ Veena Das - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006. - xiv, 281 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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
Violence
Manners and customs
Politics and government
303.62 / DAS/L
Life and words: violence and the descent into the ordinary/ Veena Das - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006. - xiv, 281 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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
Violence
Manners and customs
Politics and government
303.62 / DAS/L