Sanjib Kr Biswas, Priyanka Tripathi

The Gendered War (eBook, ePUB)

Evaluating Feminist Ethnographic Narratives of the 1971 War of Bangladesh

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book rereads the historiography of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971 documented by Bangladeshi, Indian, and Western historians to trace the position of women who share a negligible place in the gendered war history. It analyses how contemporary novels of South Asia have dealt with the war and highlights women's issues like their subordination through blame, their agency in the war, and their victimization in the ethnic politics of their men. The book has also taken into account nonfictional works of contemporary women ethnographers and studies the lives of women who had engaged in the 1971 war not only as victims, but also as social workers, healthcare professionals, and fighters, and whose voice has been continuously suppressed in the post-war situation of Bangladesh. The book follows a postmodern approach to evaluate the ethnographic metanarratives in the forms of ethnographic fictions, oral history, interview, and memoirs in order to challenge women's neglected place in the historical grand narratives of the 1971 war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789354359576
• Artikelnr.: 67163598

Autorenporträt

Sanjib Kr Biswas presently works as a postgraduate teacher of English at Rasakhowa High School (HS), West Bengal, India. Formerly, he served as an academic counsellor of English at Indira Gandhi National Open University . He completed his PhD in 2021 from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT), Patna. He is the recipient of two state level prizes for writing. He has been published in journals such as
Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, Journal of International Women's Studies (Bridgewater State University,
Massachusetts) and Journal of Gender Studies (Taylor & Francis). His book chapter was featured in Bangladeshi Literature in English:
A Critical Anthology (2021, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: The Gendered History of the 1971 War and Women's Narratives
2 Relocating the Women of the 1971 War in History
3 Women of the 1971 War in Fictional Narratives
4 Women of the 1971 War in Narrative Non-fiction
5 Feminist Narratives of 1971: The Present and the Future
References
Index
About the Authors