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... not touch, through the evidence of language, or forms of address, employed by husbands and wives in everyday interaction, and examines men’s behavior or comportment in domestic space, as reflected in male restlessness and impatience. It cites specific examples from all the different social groups discussed...

... The conclusion takes up the question of mourning under colonial rule. It argues that the records of struggle and domination taken up in the book confirm the impatient stirrings of loved ones gone that weigh upon the living—stirrings that are refusals of what Dionne Brand calls the “aesthetics...

... of language, or forms of address, employed by husbands and wives in everyday interaction, and examines men’s behavior or comportment in domestic space, as reflected in male restlessness and impatience. It cites specific examples from all the different social groups discussed in preceding chapters...

... is beholden to no one outside himself, least of all to “minor dependents” in the domestic world. Chapter 7 revisits these beliefs, and the tensions and conflicts that flowed from them, through examples of men’s insistence on “educating” women, and women’s wonderment at men’s impatient behavior, across class...