{"product_id":"ethical-encounters-transnational-feminism-human-rights-and-war-cinema-in-bangladesh-paperback","title":"Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElora Halim Chowdhury\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEthical Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e is an exploration of the intersection of feminism, human rights, and memory to illuminate how visual practices of recollecting violent legacies in Bangladeshi cinema can conjure a global cinematic imagination for the advancement of humanity. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy examining contemporary, women-centered \u003ci\u003eMuktijuddho\u003c\/i\u003e cinema-features and documentaries that focus on the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971-Elora Chowdhury shows how these films imagine, disrupt, and reinscribe a gendered nationalist landscape of trauma, freedom, and agency. Chowdhury analyzes Bangladeshi feminist films including \u003ci\u003eMeherjaan\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eItihaash Konna\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eDaughters of History\u003c\/i\u003e), as well as socially-engaged films by activist-filmmakers including \u003ci\u003eJonmo Shathi\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eBorn Together\u003c\/i\u003e), and \u003ci\u003eShadhinota\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eA Certain Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e), to show how war films of Bangladesh can generate possibilities for gender justice. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChowdhury argues that justice-driven films are critical to understanding and negotiating the layered meanings and consequences of catastrophic human suffering yet at the same time they hint at subjectivities and identities that are not reducible to the politics of suffering. Rather, they are key to creating an alternative and disruptive archive of feminist knowledge-a sensitive witnessing, responsible spectatorship, and just responsibility across time, and space. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on Black and transnational feminist critiques, Chowdhury explores questions around women's place, social roles, and modes of participation in war as well as the visual language through which they become legible as victims\/subjects of violence and agents of the nation. \u003ci\u003eEthical Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the possibilities of film as a site to articulate an ethics that acknowledges a founding violence of the birth of a nation, recuperates it even if in fragments, and imagines differently the irreconcilable relationship between humanity, liberty, and justice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElora Halim Chowdhury \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eTransnationalism Reversed: Women Organizing Against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Women's Studies Association's Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize. She is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eSouth Asian Filmscapes: Transregional Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eInterdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights: History, Politics, Practice\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eDissident Friendships: Feminism, Imperialism, and Transnational Solidarity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 249\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 06, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51784186396960,"sku":"9781439922255","price":47.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/41e302f6337590abafa75e0c3cbb4a3c.webp?v=1780601642","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/ethical-encounters-transnational-feminism-human-rights-and-war-cinema-in-bangladesh-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}