{"product_id":"ethical-encounters-elora-halim-chowdhury-9781439922248","title":"Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh","description":"\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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elora Halim Chowdhury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1439922241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439922248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Elora Halim Chowdhury","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054357147903,"sku":"9781439922248","price":110.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e324ee9b-5ad1-4742-84a0-4906dced415c.jpg?v=1685029491","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ethical-encounters-elora-halim-chowdhury-9781439922248","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}