Communal conflicts and women’s victimization: Women’s victimization depicted in Ice-Candy-Man (1989), A War Heroine, I Speak (2017) And Rohingya: The Sold Dream (2017)

Abstract

In almost every communal conflict, women become one of the prime victims. Especially in the context of the Indian Subcontinent, the notion of women’s victimization in communal conflict gets strong. Since in the context of the Indian Subcontinent, the idea of nation is associated with mother/woman, the honor of their nations, communities are mainly related to women. Women’s roles as mothers of the nation and transmitters of culture symbolize the honor of the ethnic group in those communities. When a woman’s honor is tarnished through sexual violence, the ethnic group is also dishonored and weakened. Therefore, men of one ethnic religious community choose women as a medium to defeat the adversary ethnic-religious community. My thesis claims that in the context of the Indian Subcontinent, women become one of the prime victims in communal conflicts. It also declares that women become victims during the conflicts, and their victimization continues in the post-conflict contexts. In my thesis, women’s victimization will be depicted in the context of three communal conflicts: India Partition (1947), Liberation War of Bangladesh (1971), and Rohingya Crisis (2017), respectively. Moreover, my thesis attempts to show the continuation of women’s victimization in the communal conflict in the context of the Indian Subcontinent through the depiction of the mentioned communal conflicts. In addition, my thesis aims to depict women’s victimization during and in the post conflict context of the mentioned communal conflicts, which causes their physical and mental trauma. In my thesis, the narrative of women’s victimization during and in the post-conflict context of the mentioned communal conflicts will be depicted in the light of the three primary texts, Ice-Candy-Man (1989), A War Heroine, I Speak (2017), and Rohingya: The Sold Dream (2017) respectively. Additionally, my thesis will follow the analytical approach to present Mou6 the argument. Besides, several famous theories such as Gender and Nation, Gendered Nature of war, Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, Betty Freidan’s The Feminine Mystique, and several secondary sources discussed in the literature review chapter will be used here to make my argument admissible