The spectral wound : sexual violence, public memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 - Mookherjee, Nayanika, 1972-; Das, Veena (Durham : Duke University Press, 2015)
"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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-308) and index.
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Keywords: Rape as a weapon of war -- Bangladesh; Women -- Crimes against -- Bangladesh; Bangladesh -- History -- Revolution, 1971.