The
spectral wound
sexual violence, public memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971
Mookherjee, Nayanika
1972-
creator
author.
Das, Veena
text
bibliography
ncu
Durham
Duke University Press
2015
monographic
eng
xxiv 325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
"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.
Nayanika Mookherjee ; foreword by Veena Das.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-308) and index.
ENH
a-bg---
Rape as a weapon of war
Bangladesh
Women
Crimes against
Bangladesh
Bangladesh
History
Revolution, 1971
DS395.5 .M65 2015
954.92046
9789385932212
9780822359494 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780822359685 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2015021378
Ayesha Abed Library
NcD/DLC
190415
20190415160715.0
34584
eng