Anxiety and Memory of 1971 War Mothers in the Literature of Bangladesh - Shahnaz Parvin

Anxiety and Memory of 1971 War Mothers in the Literature of Bangladesh Shahnaz Parvin Assistant Professor Department of English Language and Literature Premier University Chattogram Email: sp_ctg@yahoo.com Abstract The position of women on the battlefield is a kind of being victimized in wartime; as a result in war literature, mostly, writers have designed their plots related to the abasements of the women in the combat. No doubt, the mothers’ anxiety for the freedom fighter sons while participating in the war and the unbearable remembrance of losing their dear and near ones throughout the life is abandoned in most of the war discussions. The freedom fighters’ mothers of the Liberation War of Bangladesh are no different in this regard, though having all their anxieties and memories of the wartime, they have impeccable sacrifice and support to create a new country, Bangladesh, on the world map in 1971. The article has chosen a memoir, namely Jahanara Imam’s Ekatturer Dinguly (1986) and two fictions, Maa (20012) by Anisul Haque and A Golden Age (2007) by Tahmima Anam, and also interviews are also taken from a few real-life mothers of the freedom fighters of Bangladesh to conduct the article and to portray the war mothers’ anxiety of sending the sons to the war field, and the haunted memories that they carry throughout their lives; Key Words: Mother, Freedom Fighter, Anxiety and Memory.