The gendered war
Subtitle: Evaluating feminist ethnographic narratives of the 1971 war of Bangladesh
By: Sanjib Kr Biswas
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury India
Published: 2022
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789354359170
Subjects: Gender studies; Women; Post-colonial literature; Literary studies: fiction; Literature & literary studies
Description: The book rereads the historiography of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971 documented by Bangladeshi, Indian, and Western historians to trace the position of women who share a negligible place in the gendered war history. It analyses how contemporary novels of South Asia have dealt with the war and highlights women's issues like their subordination through blame, their agency in the war, and their victimization in the ethnic politics of their men. The book has also taken into account nonfictional works of contemporary women ethnographers and studies the lives of women who had engaged in the 1971 war not only as victims, but also as social workers, healthcare professionals, and fighters, and whose voice has been continuously suppressed in the post-war situation of Bangladesh. The book follows a postmodern approach to evaluate the ethnographic metanarratives in the forms of ethnographic fictions, oral history, interview, and memoirs in order to challenge women's neglected place in the historical grand narratives of the 1971 war..
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Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements  1 Introduction: The Gendered History of the 1971 War and Women's Narratives 2 Relocating the Women of the 1971 War in History  3 Women of the 1971 War in Fictional Narratives  4 Women of the 1971 War in Narrative Non-fiction  5 Feminist Narratives of 1971: The Present and the Future  References  Index  About the Authors .