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Spectral Wound : Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War Of 1971 by Nayanika Mookherjee (2015, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherDuke University Press

ISBN-100822359685

ISBN-139780822359685

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Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameSpectral Wound : Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971

SubjectAsia / India & South Asia, Women's Studies, Violence in Society

Publication Year2015

TypeTextbook

AuthorNayanika Mookherjee

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2015-021378

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ReviewsMookerjee's exemplary and closely argued The Spectral Wound highlights the central conundrum of making wartime rapes public: heroism, implied and acknowledged by the designation birangona, can only be acquired by making your shame public....[An] uncommonly complex and delicately observed study..., What happens when a moment of personal violation becomes appropriated as part of the narrative of a new collectivity? In a subtle and multifaceted analysis, Nayanika Mookherjee tracks the consequences, both personal and political, of acts of sexual violence that refuse to be forgotten four decades on from the war of independence., Nayanika Mookherjee has produced a brilliant profile of a society grappling with the impact of war centered on rape and its memory. Dealing with rape in war is a political act and memories serve many causes, from the nationalist to the personal. Mookherjee looks at the issue through the lenses of class, culture, and politics, making it one of the most comprehensive and perceptive studies available, as she investigates from within what it means to become an outsider and the socio-political mechanisms that make it happen., "Engaging and lucidly written, The Spectral Wound raises a host of theoretical and ethical considerations. How might we re-conceptualize the experience of wartime rape without reducing survivor subjectivities to their "wounds?" To whom is the feminist activist accountable? . . . This thoughtful and provocative text calls on the reader to revisit such dilemmas instead of taking the answers for granted.", "Nayanika Mookherjee has produced a brilliant profile of a society grappling with the impact of war centered on rape and its memory. Dealing with rape in war is a political act and memories serve many causes, from the nationalist to the personal. Mookherjee looks at the issue through the lenses of class, culture, and politics, making it one of the most comprehensive and perceptive studies available, as she investigates from within what it means to become an outsider and the socio-political mechanisms that make it happen." , The Spectral Wound is an exceptional book. It has thoroughly explored its subject from every conceivable angle in such a way as to give it a real intellectual richness., "Nayanika Mookherjee has made visible a scene of gendered violence in the Bangladesh War of Liberation that travels beyond its specific context to historical, theoretical, and lived realities that are global in range and scope." , " The Spectral Wound is an exceptional book. It has thoroughly explored its subject from every conceivable angle in such a way as to give it a real intellectual richness." -- Nardina Kaur Economic and Political Weekly "It is a pleasure to review books that offer an innovative reading of important areas of recent scholarship. Nayanika Mookherjee's book throws an epistemic challenge to previous authors and interpretations on the subject." -- Rachana Chakraborty Social History "Mookerjee's exemplary and closely argued The Spectral Wound highlights the central conundrum of making wartime rapes public: heroism, implied and acknowledged by the designation birangona, can only be acquired by making your shame public....[An] uncommonly complex and delicately observed study..." -- Ritu Menon Women's Review of Books "[Mookherjee] asks, 'What would it mean for the politics of identifying wartime rape if we were to highlight how the raped woman folds the experience of sexual violence into her daily socialities, rather than identifying her as a horrific wound?' That is the central question of this powerful and perceptive book." -- Michael Lambek Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute "Critical, reflective, and transformative to our understanding of gender violence, memory, and recuperation, Mookherjee's extraordinary ethnography is undoubtedly essential reading for scholars and students of feminist theory, anthropology, Bangladesh, and South Asia studies." -- Elora Halim Chowdhury Journal of Asian Studies "Engaging and lucidly written, The Spectral Wound raises a host of theoretical and ethical considerations. How might we re-conceptualize the experience of wartime rape without reducing survivor subjectivities to their "wounds?" To whom is the feminist activist accountable? . . . This thoughtful and provocative text calls on the reader to revisit such dilemmas instead of taking the answers for granted." -- Dina M. Siddiqi International Feminist Journal of Politics "Nayanika Mookherjee's research is important as a testimonial, a guide, and as a recovery of the individual experiences of those raped in 1971." -- Maitreyi Dhaka Tribune, Nayanika Mookherjee's research is important as a testimonial, a guide, and as a recovery of the individual experiences of those raped in 1971., [Mookherjee] asks, 'What would it mean for the politics of identifying wartime rape if we were to highlight how the raped woman folds the experience of sexual violence into her daily socialities, rather than identifying her as a horrific wound?' That is the central question of this powerful and perceptive book., "What happens when a moment of personal violation becomes appropriated as part of the narrative of a new collectivity? In a subtle and multifaceted analysis, Nayanika Mookherjee tracks the consequences, both personal and political, of acts of sexual violence that refuse to be forgotten four decades on from the war of independence." , Critical, reflective, and transformative to our understanding of gender violence, memory, and recuperation, Mookherjee's extraordinary ethnography is undoubtedly essential reading for scholars and students of feminist theory, anthropology, Bangladesh, and South Asia studies., Nayanika Mookherjee has made visible a scene of gendered violence in the Bangladesh War of Liberation that travels beyond its specific context to historical, theoretical, and lived realities that are global in range and scope., It is a pleasure to review books that offer an innovative reading of important areas of recent scholarship. Nayanika Mookherjee's book throws an epistemic challenge to previous authors and interpretations on the subject.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal954.9204/6

Table Of ContentForeword ix Preface: A Lot of History, a Severe History xv Acknowledgments xxi Introduction: The "Looking-Glass Border" 1 Part I 1. The Month of Mourning and the Languid Floodwaters: The Weave of National History 31 2. We Would Rather Have Shaak (Greens) Than Murgi (Chicken) Polao : The Archiving of the Birangona 47 3. Bringing Out the Snake: Khota (Scorn) and the Public Secrecy of Sexual Violence 67 4. A Mine of Thieves: Interrogting Local Politics 91 5. My Own Imagination in My Own Body: Embodied Transgressions in the Everyday 107 Part II 6. Mingling in Society: Rehabilitation Program and Re-membering the Raped Woman 129 7. The Absent Piece of Skin: Gendered, Racialized, and Territorial Inscriptions of Sexual Violence during the Bangladesh War 159 8. Imagining the War Heroine: Examination of State, Press, Literary, Visual, and Human Rights Accounts, 1971-2001 177 9. Subjectivities of War Heroines: Victim, Agent, Traitor? 228 Part III Conclusion. The Truth is Tough: Human Rights and the Politics of Transforming Experiences of Wartime Rape "Trauma" into Public Memories 251 Postscript: From 2001 until 2013 264 Notes 277 Glossary 291 References 293 Index 309

SynopsisIn 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberDS395