BOOK LAUNCH "The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971" By Nayanika Mookherjee at School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 6pm on 21st November 2016
Time : 6:00 pm (Tea will be served at 5.30 p.m) Add to Calendar 21/11/2016 18:00 21/11/2016 19:30 Asia/Kolkata BOOK LAUNCH "The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971" By Nayanika Mookherjee Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/11/book-launch-spectral-wound-sexual.html School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067 DD/MM/YYYY
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)
Venue : School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067
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Event Description : School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University And Zubaan Invite you to the launch of the book "The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971" By Nayanika Mookherjee, Durham University
About the Book : 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 flattens the diversity of their experiences through which birangonas have lived with the violence of wartime rape.
Panel Discussion :
Pratiksha Baxi (Associate Professor, Law and Governance, JNU),
Shohini Ghosh (Professor, Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Milia Islamia)
Tanika Sarkar (Historian and Former Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU)
Tanweer Fazal (Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems)
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BOOK LAUNCH "The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971" By Nayanika Mookherjee at School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 6pm on 21st November 2016
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