00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862466871 Buklod 20220928145438.0 m | | ta 220928s2007 caub rb s001 0|eng d 0520247450 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780520247451 (pbk. : alk. paper) (iLib)UPBAG-00045217814 DLC BAG rda eng GN 635 I4 D37 2007 Das, Veena author. Life and words violence and the descent into the ordinary Veena Das ; foreword by Stanley Cavell. Berkeley, California University of California Press [2007] xiv, 281 pages maps 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies "A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Page [ii] Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-265) and index. 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. 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 customs. Cavell, Stanley author of introduction, etc. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN GN 635 I4 D37 2007 Book