Chaity Das

In the Land of Buried Tongues

Testimonies and Literary Narratives of the War of Liberation of Bangladesh

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Produktbeschreibung

This book deals with testimonial literature and fiction emerging from the War of Liberation of 1971 in Bangladesh and Pakistan through the lenses of gender and genre. To recover a history of the war closer to the experiences of people, the author takes her cue from studies of war, the holocaust as well as the partition of 1947 as stories of witnesses, victims, perpetrators, and their progeny are examined through close reading.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 147mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780199474721
• ISBN-10: 0199474729
• Artikelnr.: 47869003

Autorenporträt

Chaity Das teaches English literature at Kalindi College for Women, University of Delhi, New Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction
* Chapter I In Freedom's Wake: Unquiet Histories, Persistent Memories
* Chapter II Another Front, Another War: Women's Memoirs and
Testimonies of Sexual Violence of 1971
* Chapter III Between 'Pakistan' and 'Bangladesh': Of Resistance,
Violence, and Masculine Fantasies
* Chapter IV The Aesthetic of Freedom: Fiction of/in Times of Siege
* Chapter V 'Strange Meeting': Of Genres, Memories, and Truths
* Postscript
* Index
* About the author