The spectral wound :
Mookherjee, Nayanika, 1972-
The spectral wound : sexual violence, public memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 / Nayanika Mookherjee ; foreword by Veena Das. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2015 - xxiv 325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-308) and index.
"The month of mourning and the languid floodwaters" : the weave of national history -- "We would rather have shaak (greens) than murgi (chicken) polao" : the archiving of the Birangona -- "Bringing out the snake" : khota (scorn) and the public secrecy of sexual violence -- "A mine of thieves" : interrogating local politics -- "My own imagination in my own body" : embodied transgressions in the everyday -- "Mingling in society" : rehabilitation program and re-membering the raped woman -- The absent piece of skin : gendered, racialized, and territorial inscriptions of sexual violence during the Bangladesh War -- "Imaging the war heroine" : examination of state, press, literary, visual, and human rights accounts, 1971-2001 -- Subjectivities of war heroines : victim, agent, traitor? -- "The truth is tough" : human rights and the politics of transforming experiences of wartime rape "trauma" into public memories.
9789385932212 9780822359494 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780822359685 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2015021378
DS395.5 / .M65 2015
954.92046
The spectral wound : sexual violence, public memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 / Nayanika Mookherjee ; foreword by Veena Das. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2015 - xxiv 325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-308) and index.
"The month of mourning and the languid floodwaters" : the weave of national history -- "We would rather have shaak (greens) than murgi (chicken) polao" : the archiving of the Birangona -- "Bringing out the snake" : khota (scorn) and the public secrecy of sexual violence -- "A mine of thieves" : interrogating local politics -- "My own imagination in my own body" : embodied transgressions in the everyday -- "Mingling in society" : rehabilitation program and re-membering the raped woman -- The absent piece of skin : gendered, racialized, and territorial inscriptions of sexual violence during the Bangladesh War -- "Imaging the war heroine" : examination of state, press, literary, visual, and human rights accounts, 1971-2001 -- Subjectivities of war heroines : victim, agent, traitor? -- "The truth is tough" : human rights and the politics of transforming experiences of wartime rape "trauma" into public memories.
9789385932212 9780822359494 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780822359685 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2015021378
DS395.5 / .M65 2015
954.92046