Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-308) and index.

"The month of mourning and the languid floodwaters" : the weave of n ational history -- "We would rather have shaak (greens) than murgi (chi cken) polao" : the archiving of the Birangona -- "Bringing out the snak e" : khota (scorn) and the public secrecy of sexual violence -- "A mine of thieves" : interrogating local politics -- "My own imagination in m y own body" : embodied transgressions in the everyday -- "Mingling in s ociety" : rehabilitation program and re-membering the raped woman -- Th e absent piece of skin : gendered, racialized, and territorial inscript ions of sexual violence during the Bangladesh War -- "Imaging the war h eroine" : examination of state, press, literary, visual, and human righ ts accounts, 1971-2001 -- Subjectivities of war heroines : victim, agen t, traitor? -- "The truth is tough" : human rights and the politics of transforming experiences of wartime rape "trauma" into public memories.