The Spectral Wound

The Spectral Wound
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 9780822375227
ISBN-13 : 0822375222
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Book Synopsis The Spectral Wound by : Nayanika Mookherjee

Download or read book The Spectral Wound written by Nayanika Mookherjee and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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