Himani Bannerji

Himani Bannerji
Born	1942 (age 83–84) Sylhet, British India
Alma mater	Visva-Bharati University, B.A. Jadavpur University, M.A. University of Toronto, M.A. University of Toronto, Ph.D.

Himani Bannerji (born 1942) is a Canadian writer, sociologist, scholar, ^[1] and philosopher from Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Early life and education

Bannerji was born in Bengal Presidency of British India. She studied in Calcutta. She received her B.A. and M.A. in English from Visva-Bharati University and Jadavpur University respectively, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Her thesis was completed in 1988 with the title: The Politics of Representation: A Study of Class and Class Struggle in the Political Theatre of West Bengal. ^[2]

Career

She teaches in the Department of Sociology, ^[3] the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought, and the Graduate Programme in Women's Studies at York University in Canada. She is also known for her activist work and poetry.

Bannerji works in the areas of Marxist, feminist and anti-racist theory. ^[4] She is especially focused on reading colonial discourse through Karl Marx's concept of ideology, and putting together a reflexive analysis of gender, race and class. Bannerji also does much lecturing about the Gaze and othering and silencing of women who are marginalized.

Her novella, Coloured Pictures, teaches children about confronting racism. ^[5]

In addition to her work in the academy, Bannerji has also published in a variety of venues to reach different audiences. Two of her articles have been published in Rungh Magazine. ^{[6] [7]}

Bibliography

• The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender. (Brill)
• Demography and Democracy: Essays on Nationalism, Gender and Ideology. (Canadian Scholars' Press and Orient Blackswan)
• Inventing Subjects: Studies in Hegemony, Patriarchy and Colonialism. (Tulika)
• Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Racism (Canadian Scholars Press)
• The Writing on the Wall: Essays on Culture and Politics (TSAR Press);
• Thinking Through: Essays in Marxism, Feminism and Anti-Racism (The Women's Press)
• The Mirror of Class: Essays on Bengali theatre (Papyrus)

Fiction

• Coloured Pictures (A novel) (Toronto: Sister Vision, 1991)
• Her Mother's Ashes, in: Nurjehan Aziz, ed. Her Mother's Ashes. Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States. TSAR Publications, Toronto 1994

Poetry

• Doing Time: Poems (Toronto: Sister Vision, 1986.)
• A Separate Sky (Toronto: Domestic Bliss, 1982.) – Which includes her translation of Bengali poems by Subhas Mukhapadhyay, Manbendra Bandyopadhyay and Shamshur Rahman.

Co-authored and edited

• Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism (University of Toronto Press);
• Unsettling Relations: The University as a Site for Feminist Struggle (The Women's Press);
• Returning the Gaze: : Essays on Gender, Race and Class by Non-White Women (SisterVision Press)

References

1. "Himani Bannerji". CSPI. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
2. "Himani Bannerji – Asian Heritage in Canada". Archived from the original on 1 October 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
3. "Bannerji, Himani – York Centre for Asian Research". Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
4. "Himani Bannerji". CSPI. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
5. "Himani Bannerji – Asian Heritage in Canada". Archived from the original on 1 October 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
6. Bannerji, Himani. "A Letter from the Gulf". Archived from the original on 6 May 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
7. Bannerji, Himani (19 December 2019). "Reorganizing Orientalist Constructions". Rungh. Retrieved 12 March 2022.

External links

• 'On the Dark Side of the Nation' article
• Rabindra Memorial Prize
• Yorku profile Archived 23 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine