Mookherjee, Nayanika,  1972- <br/><br/>
The Spectral Wound :  Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971  

 - xxiv 325 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-308) and index. 
<br/><br/>"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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780822359685 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015021378 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rape as a weapon of war--Bangladesh.<br/>Women--Crimes against--Bangladesh.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Bangladesh--History--Revolution, 1971.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS395.5.M65