TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mookherjee,Nayanika
TI  - The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 
SN  - 9780822359685 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - DS395.5.M65 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Rape as a weapon of war
KW  - Bangladesh
KW  - Women
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1971
N1  - 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
ER  -