... secrets—while at the same time concealing local complicity with wartime rape. khot a public secrecy shame honor forgetting ...

... khot a public secrecy shame honor forgetting ...

... on the tropes of kinship, genealogy, and family. It shows that the figure of Sheikh Mujib has become a “mnemotope”—a “place” around which memories and events of 1971 organize themselves. By highlighting the absent presence and public secrecy of 1947 in the 1971 historiography, the chapter attempts to highlight...

...,” and “spectral” to examine how the raped woman emerges as a horrific “wound” in the public memory of wartime rape during 1971. The public secrecies and “combing” inherent in this history making are explored throughout the book by examining the processes of historiography, documentation, scorn, local politics...

... on the tropes of kinship, genealogy, and family. It shows that the figure of Sheikh Mujib has become a “mnemotope”—a “place” around which memories and events of 1971 organize themselves. By highlighting the absent presence and public secrecy of 1947 in the 1971 historiography, the chapter attempts to highlight...

.... removal of Saddam Hussein from the Iraqi presidency. The ability to mobilize such fears occurred in the gap between state secrecy and publicity of animal experimentation and dual use research in popular writings on bioterrorism. By managing the secret/public divide, the security state effectively...

.... This chapter considers the ways in which these two phenomena act in concert to interpellate the American public—referred to as “civilians,” a figure that the chapter explores—to the call of war. Rather than understanding state secrecy as the only—or even as the primary—obstacle to a critical and participatory...

... performance, to its more recent iterations as assembly, celebration, forum, the mehfil has always been a terrain of paradoxical potentiality: infused with secrecy and sexuality, yet decidedly public and performative. sexuality gathering celebration performance ...

... in Iraq and Afghanistan appear in the public domain. This chapter considers the ways in which these two phenomena act in concert to interpellate the American public—referred to as “civilians,” a figure that the chapter explores—to the call of war. Rather than understanding state secrecy as the only...

... (such as the lynchings that sent the family north), and elements of the African American mystic tradition—dreams, visions, and sight. death and dying African spirituality Ella Lee Harris Freeney (“Mama Freeney”) secrecy dreams A brief anecdote about Rosemarie being sent to collect her nephew, Charles...