The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971
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Zubaan Academic
Book: Author
Edition
Reprint.
Publisher
ISBN
9789385932212
Length
xxiv+325p., Illustrations; 23cm.
Subjects
Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani military and their local collaborators as birangonas, ("brave women”). Nayanika Mookherjee demonstrates that while this celebration of birangonas as heroes keeps them in the public memory, they exist in the public consciousness as what Mookherjee calls a spectral wound. Dominant representations of birangonas as dehumanized ...