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The Spectral Wound : Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015Description: xxiv 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780822359685 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS395.5.M65
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Asian University for Women Library Non-fiction General Stacks DS395.5.M65 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 031467
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-308) and index.

"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.

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