The Daily Star publishes excerpt from Murshid's new book

The Daily Star, the largest English-language daily in Bangladesh, printed an excerpt from Intimacies of Violence, a new book by Associate Professor Nadine Shaanta Murshid.

In the essay, titled “Spectacularised rape,” Murshid writes: “In the psyche and schema of the average transnational Bangladeshi, rape is visible and legitimate only when it takes spectacular forms — violent, brutal, deadly. I argue that this is a nationalist rendering of rape that is retained in Bangladesh and its diaspora to maintain the image of the valiant and brave Bangladeshi male freedom fighter who fought Pakistan to liberate his nation, his motherland, and indeed, his mother, cementing the role of men as protectors of women's honor.”