Andrew Brandel has organized an extraordinary and diverse set of commentaries on Nayanika Mookherjee’s The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 (Duke University Press, 2015). Each intervention is a path that moves outward from Mookherjee’s remarkable study, finding ways through the brambles of memory and history. We hope you enjoy. — Todd Meyers, Associate Editor
Introduction: The Violence of Life and Its Images
Andrew Brandel (editor)
Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
Interiorities of Memory
Swayam Bagaria
Johns Hopkins University
Communicating Violence: Reviewing The Spectral Wound
Jennifer L. Culbert
Johns Hopkins University
The Performance of Public Secrets in The Spectral Wound
Amrita Ibrahim
Georgetown University
On Counting
Naveeda Khan
Johns Hopkins University
Time of the Writing, the Hour of Reading
Naeem Mohaiemen
Columbia University
The Grains of Experience
Veena Das
Johns Hopkins University
The Spectral Wound and New Lines of Flight: A Reply
Nayanika Mookherjee
Durham University
For more, Nayanika Mookherjee recently talked with BBC Radio 4. The link can be found here.
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