A book based on sexual violence, public memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971, titled “The Spectral Wound” was unfolded at the Jahangirnagar University on Tuesday through a publishing ceremony.
Marking the ceremony, the anthropology department organised a seminar while the writer of the book spoke the programme.
Dr. Nayanika Mookherjee said, “During the liberation war, the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani military and their local collaborators. Then we called as birangonas, (brave women). But celebration of ‘birangonas’ as heroes keeps them in the public memory; they exist in the public consciousness as what I call a spectral wound.’
Later, directed by Prof. Mirza Taslima Sultana, a question session was held at the programme.
Among others, Prof. Manosh Chowdhury, Prof. Said Ferdous, associate Prof. Mohammad Siddiqur Rahman, associate professor Mahmudul Hasan Sumon, assistant Prof. Masud Rana, Sadaf Nur, associate prof. of Chittagong University were also present the programme.
JU Correspondent