Life and words
Subtitle: violence and the descent into the ordinary
By: Veena Das ; foreword by Stanley Cavell.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780520247451; 9780520247444
Subjects: 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
Notes: "A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--P. facing t.p.

"Philip E. Lilienthal Asian studies imprint"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: The figure of the abducted woman : the citizen as sexed --; title: Language and body : transactions and the construction of pain --; title: The act of witnessing : violence, gender, and subjectivity --; title: Boundaries, violence, and the work of time --; title: Thinking of time and subjectivity --; title: In the region of rumor --; title: The force of the local --; title: The signature of the state : the paradox of illegibility --; title: Three portraits of grief and mourning --; title: Revisiting trauma, testimony, and political community.