The spectral wound : sexual violence, public memories and the Bangladesh war of 1971 / Nayanika Mookherjee ; foreword by Veena Das.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mookherjee, Nayanika, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rape as a weapon of war--Bangladesh.

Rape as a weapon of war.

Women--Crimes against--Bangladesh.

Women.

Bangladesh--History--Revolution, 1971.

Bangladesh.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this ethnography of sexual violence during the 1971 Bangladesh War for Independence, Nayanika Mookherjee shows how the public celebration of the hundreds of thousands of rape victims-called ""birangonas"" by the state-works to homogenize and silence the experiences of these women.

Contents:

"The month of mourning and the languid flood waters" : 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822375227

0822375222

OCLC:

920546586