LEADER 04037nam 2200601 450 001 9910789027103321 005 20230803201821.0 010 $a0-8093-3326-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000088610 035 $a(EBL)1632045 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001113176 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11633369 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001113176 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11162495 035 $a(PQKB)10447764 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1632045 035 $a(OCoLC)870869398 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse34880 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1632045 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10837771 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL576499 035 $a(OCoLC)870892521 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000088610 100 $a20140225h20142014 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSeam /$fTarfia Faizullah 210 1$aCarbondale, Illinois :$cCrab Orchard Review & Southern Illinois University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (81 p.) 225 1 $aCrab Orchard Series in Poetry 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8093-3325-2 327 $aCover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1971; En Route to Bangladesh, Another Crisis of Faith; Reading Willa Cather in Bangladesh; [I place one foot then the other . . .]; Dhaka Aubade; Elegy with Her Red-Tipped Fingers; Reading Transtro?mer in Bangladesh; Instructions for the Interviewer; [Tell her what happened to you . . .]; Interview with a Birangona: 1. What were you doing when they came for you?; Interview with a Birangona: 2. Where did the Pakistani military take you, and were there others there?; Interviewer's Note: i. [You walk past white high-rises] 327 $aInterview with a Birangona: 3. Would you consider yourself a survivor or a victim?Interviewer's Note: ii. [You listen to the percussion]; Interview with a Birangona: 4. Were there other women there? Did you get along with them?; The Interviewer Acknowledges Desire; Interview with a Birangona: 5. Who was in charge at this camp? What were your days like?; Reading Willa Cather in Bangladesh; Interviewer's Note: iii. [If burnt, she said, I' ll turn to ash,]; Interview with a Birangona: 6. Many of the birangona had children by Pakistani soldiers. Did you have a child as well? 327 $aInterviewer's Note: iv. [Today there is no drinking]The Interviewer Acknowledges Shame; Interview with a Birangona: 7. Do you have siblings? Where were they?; Interviewer's Note: v. [But wasn't it the neat narrative]; The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief; Interview with a Birangona: 8. After the war was over, what did you do? Did you go back home?; Reading Celan at the Liberation War Museum; [Many corpses are stacked, . . .]; Aubade Ending with the Death of a Mosquito; Dhaka Nocturne; Reading Willa Cather in Bangladesh; En Route to Bangladesh, Another Crisis of Faith 327 $a[I struggled my way . . .]Other books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back Cover 330 $aThe poems in this captivating collection weave beauty with violence, the personal with the historic as they recount the harrowing experiences of the two hundred thousand female victims of rape and torture at the hands of the Pakistani army during the 1971 Liberation War. As the child of Bangladeshi immigrants, the poet in turn explores her own losses, as well as the complexities of bearing witness to the atrocities these war heroines endured. Throughout the volume, the narrator endeavors to bridge generational and cultural gaps even as the victims recount the horror of grief and p 410 0$aCrab Orchard award series in poetry. 606 $aAmerican poetry$y21st century 615 0$aAmerican poetry 676 $a811.608 700 $aFaizullah$b Tarfia$01533937 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789027103321 996 $aSeam$93781087 997 $aUNINA