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Life and words : violence and the descent into the ordinary

Veena Das
Print Book, English, 2007
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2007
xiv, 281 s. ; 24 cm.
9780520247444, 9780520247451, 0520247450, 0520247442
1001575743
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
"Philip E. Lilienthal Asian studies imprint."