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Contributes to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. This book examines case studies including the extreme violence of the Partition of India in 1947 and the massacre of Sikhs in 1984 after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

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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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    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 04/12/2006
    ISBN13: 9780520247451, 978-0520247451
    ISBN10: 0520247450
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Contributes to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. This book examines case studies including the extreme violence of the Partition of India in 1947 and the massacre of Sikhs in 1984 after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

    Table of Contents
    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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