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The Spectral Wound de Nayanika Mookherjee

The Spectral Wound

Autor Nayanika Mookherjee
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 oct 2015
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822359494
ISBN-10: 0822359499
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

Cuprins

Foreword  ix

Preface: A Lot of History, a Severe History  xv

Acknowledgments  xxi

Introduction: The "Looking-Glass Border"  1

Part I

1. The Month of Mourning and the Languid Floodwaters: The Weave of National History  31

2. We Would Rather Have Shaak (Greens) Than Murgi (Chicken) Polao: The Archiving of the Birangona  47

3. Bringing Out the Snake: Khota (Scorn) and the Public Secrecy of Sexual Violence  67

4. A Mine of Thieves: Interrogting Local Politics  91

5. My Own Imagination in My Own Body: Embodied Transgressions in the Everyday  107

Part II

6. Mingling in Society: Rehabilitation Program and Re-membering the Raped Woman  129

7. The Absent Piece of Skin: Gendered, Racialized, and Territorial Inscriptions of Sexual Violence during the Bangladesh War  159

8. Imagining the War Heroine: Examination of State, Press, Literary, Visual, and Human Rights Accounts, 1971–2001  177

9. Subjectivities of War Heroines: Victim, Agent, Traitor?  228

Part III

Conclusion. The Truth is Tough: Human Rights and the Politics of Transforming Experiences of Wartime Rape "Trauma" into Public Memories  251

Postscript: From 2001 until 2013  264

Notes  277

Glossary  291

References  293

Index  309