E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten
Mookherjee The Spectral Wound
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7522-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971
E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7522-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
In this ethnography of sexual violence during the 1971 Bangladesh War for Independence, Nayanika Mookherjee shows how the public celebration of the hundreds of thousands of rape victims—called "birangonas" by the state—works to homogenize and silence the experiences of these women.
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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