The Gendered War: Evaluating Feminist Ethnographic Narratives of the 1971 War of Bangladesh

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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 womens 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 womens neglected place in the historical grand narratives of the 1971 war.

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Sanjib Kr Biswas presently works as a postgraduate teacher of English at Rasakhowa High School (HS), West Bengal, India. Formerly he was an Academic Counselor of English at Indira Gandhi National Open University. He completed his PhD in 2021 from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Patna, India. He is the recipient of two state level prizes for writing. He has published with Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, Journal of International Womens Studies (Bridgewater State University, USA), Journal of Gender Studies (Taylor & Francis), etc. Priyanka Tripathi is an Associate Professor of English and Head, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Patna (India). She has published extensively with Indian Literature, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, GeoHumanities, Economic and Political Weekly amongst others. She has received several grants: JIWS fellowship 2021-22 (Bridgewater State University), Shastri Conference And Lecture Series Grant (Sclsg) 2021-22, Post colonial Association grant 2020-21 CIIL conference grant 2020 amongst others. She has also worked on several government sponspored projects related to gender issues. She works in the area of gender studies, South Asian fiction, GeoHumanities and graphic novels.