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The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of
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The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 Hardcover - 2015

by Nayanika Mookherjee


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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 victims with disheveled hair, a vacant look, and rejected by their communities create this wound, the effects of which flatten the diversity of their experiences through which birangonas have lived with the violence of wartime rape. In critically examining the pervasiveness of the birangona construction, Mookherjee opens the possibility for a more politico-economic, ethical, and nuanced inquiry into the sexuality of war.

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  • Title The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971
  • Author Nayanika Mookherjee
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press
  • Date 2015-10-30
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780822359494 / 0822359499
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 1 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Indian
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Bangladesh - History - Revolution, 1971, Rape as a weapon of war - Bangladesh
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015021378
  • Dewey Decimal Code 954.920

About the author

Nayanika Mookherjee is Reader in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at Durham University. Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University.
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