UID:
almafu_9959677501602883
Format:
1 online resource (353 pages)
ISBN:
0-8223-7522-2
Content:
In this ethnography of sexual violence during the 1971 Bangladesh War for Independence, Nayanika Mookherjee shows how the public celebration of the hundreds of thousands of rape victims-called ""birangonas"" by the state-works to homogenize and silence the experiences of these women.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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"The month of mourning and the languid flood waters" : 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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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5968-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5949-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822375227
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375227
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822375227
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375227
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822375227
