Mookherjee Nayanika Mookherjee

Spectral Wound (eBook, PDF)

Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971

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Produktbeschreibung

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, ("e;brave women"e;). 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822375227
• Artikelnr.: 54783001

Autorenporträt

Nayanika Mookherjee

Inhaltsangabe

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