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Professor Nayanika Mookherjee's Outputs (7)

History and the Birangona: The ethics of representing narratives of sexual violence of the 1971 Bangladesh war (2015)
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Mookherjee, N. (2015). History and the Birangona: The ethics of representing narratives of sexual violence of the 1971 Bangladesh war

In December 1971, East Pakistan became the independent nation of Bangladesh after a nine-month war with West Pakistan and their local Bengali collaborators. Faced with a huge population of rape survivors, the new Bangladeshi government – six days aft... Read More about History and the Birangona: The ethics of representing narratives of sexual violence of the 1971 Bangladesh war.

The raped woman as a horrific sublime and the Bangladesh war of 1971 (2015)
Journal Article
Mookherjee, N. (2015). The raped woman as a horrific sublime and the Bangladesh war of 1971. Journal of Material Culture, 20(4), 379-395. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183515603742

This article examines the relationship between aesthetics and politics when invoking the imagery of war-time rape. It explores the prevalent way in which the raped woman of the Bangladesh war of 1971 is imagined in contemporary Bangladesh through the... Read More about The raped woman as a horrific sublime and the Bangladesh war of 1971.

The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971 (2015)
Book
Mookherjee, N. (2015). The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971. Duke University Press

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 cel... Read More about The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971.