Critically analyse and assess Nayanika Mookherjees argument about how public memories engaged with the pain, trauma and subjectivities of the war heroines of Bangladesh after 1971.
In this regard, how does Spectral Wound contribute to the scholarly field of war. violence and sexual violence
in modern South Asia?
critically examine how she uses her interdisciplinary archive,
the questions she raises, her framework,
and assess the contributions of the monograph, its significance and intervention in ongoing
scholarly conversations on sexual violence, war and trauma.
At least three scholarly reviews of Spectral Wound available in peer-reviewed scholarly journals online.
N. Chatterjee,
The Spectral Wound, Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the
Bangladesh War of 1971,
Durham, 2016,
https://doi-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/10.1215/9780822375227
For a gendered perspective on state violence, trauma and ethnography read U.
Butalia, Introduction and Conclusion, in
The Other Side of Silence, Voices From the Partition of India, Durham, 2000, pp. 137-93,
http://go.utlib.ca/cat/8020343
For another perspective on the same issue Bangladesh read Yasmin Saikia, Introduction
Women, War and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971,Durham ,2011,
https://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?8152928&uuid=ed04a42d-f111-478d-aa1b-b0fbd11e2c76
For insights into normalisation of pain and trauma read Veena Das and S. Cavell (eds), Introduction,
Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary, Berkeley, 2007.
