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

By: Das, Veena.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007Edition: 1st Indian edition.Description: xiv, 281 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780195687583; 0195687582.Subject(s): Violence -- India | Sikhs -- Crimes against -- India | Riots -- India -- History -- 20th century | Suffering -- India | India -- History -- Partition, 1947 | India -- Politics and government | India -- Social conditions | India -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 303.60954
Contents:
Introduction -- The event and the everyday -- The figure of the abducted woman : the citizen as sexed -- Language and body : transactions in 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.
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South Asian University

General Stacks 		303.60954 D2295l (Browse shelf) Available BK00004329
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Originally published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The event and the everyday -- The figure of the abducted woman : the citizen as sexed -- Language and body : transactions in 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.

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