The spectral wound : sexual violence, public memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 /
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| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2015
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Table of Contents:
- "The month of mourning and the languid floodwaters" : 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.