In the Land of Buried Tongues
Testimonies and Literary Narratives of the War of Liberation of Bangladesh
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9780199474721
Publication date:
14/08/2017
Hardback
360 pages
Price: 1095.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199474721
Publication date:
14/08/2017
Hardback
360 pages
Chaity Das
Chaity Das moves away from India- and Pakistan-centric descriptions of the War of Liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, focusing on the men and women who suffered in the war. She examines and analyses war memoirs and testimonials, and untapped fictional and non-fictional accounts. In her depiction of the deeply gendered universe of war, the obscure borders between perpetrators and victims become visible. By analysing the works of Akhtaruzzaman Elias, Tahmima Anam, Intizar Husain, Kamila Shamsie, and Sorayya Khan, Das reveals the traumas of the past lying unburied under the nationalistic histories of victory and loss.
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Chaity Das
Description
The War of Liberation of Bangladesh in 1971 reopened the barely healed wounds of the Partition of 1947. A third nation was carved out leaving in its wake a trail of violent experiences and memories. Murder, rape, arson, plunder, custodial torture, refugees, and bombings inked the script of a fraternal war. The rise of military dictatorship and the execution of war criminals marked the war’s long afterlife. This book takes stock of the legacy of a war of liberation and its memorialization in literature, both fictional and testimonial.
Chaity Das moves away from India- and Pakistan-centric descriptions of the war, focusing instead on the men and women who suffered in the war. Their ‘buried voices’ are brought to the fore with the help of war memoirs and testimonials, and untapped fictional and non-fictional accounts. In her depiction of the deeply gendered universe of war, the obscure borders between perpetrators and victims become visible. By analysing the works of Akhtaruzzaman Elias, Tahmima Anam, Intizar Husain, Kamila Shamsie, and Sorayya Khan, Das reveals the traumas of the past lying unburied under the nationalistic histories of victory and loss.
About the Author
Chaity Das teaches English literature at Kalindi College for Women, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Chaity Das
Table of contents
List of Images
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. In Freedom’s Wake: Unquiet Histories, Persistent Memories
2. Another Front, Another War: Women’s Memoirs and Testimonies of the Sexual Violence in 1971
3. Between ‘Pakistan’ and ‘Bangladesh’: Of Resistance, Violence, and Masculine Fantasies
4. The Aesthetic of Freedom: Fiction of and in Times of Siege
5. ‘Strange Meeting’: Of Genres, Memories, and Truths
Postscript
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Chaity Das
Chaity Das
Description
The War of Liberation of Bangladesh in 1971 reopened the barely healed wounds of the Partition of 1947. A third nation was carved out leaving in its wake a trail of violent experiences and memories. Murder, rape, arson, plunder, custodial torture, refugees, and bombings inked the script of a fraternal war. The rise of military dictatorship and the execution of war criminals marked the war’s long afterlife. This book takes stock of the legacy of a war of liberation and its memorialization in literature, both fictional and testimonial.
Chaity Das moves away from India- and Pakistan-centric descriptions of the war, focusing instead on the men and women who suffered in the war. Their ‘buried voices’ are brought to the fore with the help of war memoirs and testimonials, and untapped fictional and non-fictional accounts. In her depiction of the deeply gendered universe of war, the obscure borders between perpetrators and victims become visible. By analysing the works of Akhtaruzzaman Elias, Tahmima Anam, Intizar Husain, Kamila Shamsie, and Sorayya Khan, Das reveals the traumas of the past lying unburied under the nationalistic histories of victory and loss.
About the Author
Chaity Das teaches English literature at Kalindi College for Women, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Table of contents
List of Images
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. In Freedom’s Wake: Unquiet Histories, Persistent Memories
2. Another Front, Another War: Women’s Memoirs and Testimonies of the Sexual Violence in 1971
3. Between ‘Pakistan’ and ‘Bangladesh’: Of Resistance, Violence, and Masculine Fantasies
4. The Aesthetic of Freedom: Fiction of and in Times of Siege
5. ‘Strange Meeting’: Of Genres, Memories, and Truths
Postscript
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
