Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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.