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Life and words : Violence and the descent into the ordinary / Veena Das ; foreword by Stanley Cavell.
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.Description: xiv, 281 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780195687583
- 0520247450 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 303.60954 DAS 22
- GN635.I4 D2662 2007
Contents:
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.
| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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CSSEIP Office Library Collection
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National Law School | CSSEIP Office Library - Ambedkar Studies Books | 303.60954 DAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | Available in CSSEIP Department Library | AMB031 |
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--P. [ii].
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-265) and index.
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.
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