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Critically analyse and assess Nayanika Mookherjee’s argument about how public memories engaged with the pain, trauma and subjectivities of the ‘war heroines’ of Bangladesh after 1971.

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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.

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