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The spectral wound : sexual violence, public memories and the Bangladesh war of 1971
- Title
- The spectral wound : sexual violence, public memories and the Bangladesh war of 1971 / Nayanika Mookherjee ; foreword by Veena Das.
- Author
- Mookherjee, Nayanika, 1972-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- xxiv, 325 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-308) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-8430
- ISBN
- 9780822359494
- 0822359499
- 9780822359685
- 0822359685
- 9780822375227 (canceled/invalid)
- 0822375222 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015021378
- OCLC
- 900242699
- Author
- Mookherjee, Nayanika, 1972- author.
- Title
- The spectral wound : sexual violence, public memories and the Bangladesh war of 1971 / Nayanika Mookherjee ; foreword by Veena Das.
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-308) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-8430