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Emmanuel Levinas says, “the face is the mark of the other’s transcendence; it exceeds his or her phenomenological existence and cannot be reduced to representation.” For a specific group of Black women then, the face of a battered Black woman renders them unable or unwilling to recognize her face, yet still feel her pain.
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Wade, L. (2013). Symbolic Proximity. In: Wane, N., Jagire, J., Murad, Z. (eds) Ruptures. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-446-8_11
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