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Life and words violence and the descent into the ordinary

By Stanley , Das , Veena;Cavell

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0520247442, 0520247450
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
661 kB (676382 bytes)
Series
A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1947;India -- Politics and government;India -- SocRiots--India--History--20th century;Sikhs--Crimes

Description

Foreword 1. The Event and the Everyday 2. The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed 3. Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain 4. The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Gender, and Subjectivity 5. Boundaries, Violence, and the Work of Time 6. Thinking of Time and Subjectivity 7. In the Region of Rumor 8. The Force of the Local 9. The Signature of the State: The Paradox of Illegibility 10. Three Portraits of Grief and Mourning 11. Revisiting Trauma, Testimony, and Political Community Notes Acknowledgments Index

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