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_d145623
020 _a9780195687583
040 _cCUS
082 _a303.62
_bDAS/L
100 _aDas, Veena
245 0 _aLife and words: violence and the descent into the ordinary /
_cVeena Das; foreword by Stanley Cavell
260 _aNew Delhi:
_bOxford University Press,
_c2006.
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
942 _cWB16