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The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971
Duke University Press, 2015
eISBN: 978-0-8223-7522-7 | Paper: 978-0-8223-5968-5 | Cloth: 978-0-8223-5949-4 Library of Congress Classification DS395.5.M65 2015
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani military and their local collaborators as birangonas, ("brave women”). Nayanika Mookherjee demonstrates that while this celebration of birangonas as heroes keeps them in the public memory, they exist in the public consciousness as what Mookherjee calls a spectral wound. Dominant representations of birangonas as dehumanized victims with disheveled hair, a vacant look, and rejected by their communities create this wound, the effects of which flatten the diversity of their experiences through which birangonas have lived with the violence of wartime rape. In critically examining the pervasiveness of the birangona construction, Mookherjee opens the possibility for a more politico-economic, ethical, and nuanced inquiry into the sexuality of war. See other books on: 1971 | Bangladesh | Crimes against | Rape as a weapon of war | Sexual Violence See other titles from Duke University Press |
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The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
Duke University Press, 2015
eISBN: 978-0-8223-7522-7
Paper: 978-0-8223-5968-5
Cloth: 978-0-8223-5949-4
eISBN: 978-0-8223-7522-7
Paper: 978-0-8223-5968-5
Cloth: 978-0-8223-5949-4
Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani military and their local collaborators as birangonas, ("brave women”). Nayanika Mookherjee demonstrates that while this celebration of birangonas as heroes keeps them in the public memory, they exist in the public consciousness as what Mookherjee calls a spectral wound. Dominant representations of birangonas as dehumanized victims with disheveled hair, a vacant look, and rejected by their communities create this wound, the effects of which flatten the diversity of their experiences through which birangonas have lived with the violence of wartime rape. In critically examining the pervasiveness of the birangona construction, Mookherjee opens the possibility for a more politico-economic, ethical, and nuanced inquiry into the sexuality of war.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
