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Life and words : violence and the descent into the ordinary / Veena Das ; foreword by Stanley Cavell.

Author/creator Das, Veena
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxiv, 281 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Table of contents only
Supplemental Content Publisher description
Subject(s)
Series A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies
Contents Introduction -- The event and the everyday -- 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.
General note"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--P. [ii].
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-265) and index.
LCCN 2006003041
ISBN0520247442 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520247450 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780520247444
ISBN9780520247451

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