Masking terror : how women contain violence in southern Sri Lanka /
Argenti-Pillen, Alex.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-234) and index.
Introduction: how women contain violence -- "Have some tea with a piece of Nirvana!": a lifetime under the gaze of the wild -- "Even the wild spirits are afraid!": the gaze of the wild in five neighborhoods -- "We can tell anything to the milk tree": ambiguous forms of speech -- "Those and these things happened": ambiguous forms of speech -- "She said that he had said that ... ": the use of reported speech -- "It wasn't like that when we were young": civil war, National Mental Health NGOs, and the International Community of Trauma Specialists -- The power of ambiguity.
Women and war
Ethnic conflict
Rural women
Mothers of soldiers
Psychic trauma
Sociolinguistics