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Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary
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In this paper, the authors present a portrait of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed and the Act of Witnessing: Violence, Gender, and Subjectivity.Abstract:
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 Indexread more
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