1942
British India
Himani Bannerji (born 1942) is a Bengali-Canadian author and sociologist.[1][2][3]
Early life and education
Bannerji was born in what is now Bangladesh, then a part of British India.[4][1][5] She studied in Dhaka then in Kolkata.[1][4] She received her B.A. and M.A. in English from Visva-Bharati University and Jadavpur University respectively, becoming a lecturer at the latter from 1965 to 1969.[4] She then received her M.A. from the University of Toronto and taught at Victoria College and Atkinson College.[3][4] She started work on a PhD in sociology in 1980 and it 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.[1][4]
Career
She is a Senior Scholar in the Department of Sociology[6] and has taught in the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought and the Graduate Program in Women's Studies at York University in Canada.[3]
Bannerji works in the areas of Marxist, feminist, and anti-racist theory.[2] 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.[7] Bannerji also lectures about the gaze and the othering and silencing of women who are marginalized.[3]
She was awarded the 2005 Rabindra Memorial Prize for her book Inventing Subjects: Studies in Hegemony, Patriarchy and Colonialism.[8]
She has also written poetry and children's fiction.[1] Two of her articles have been published in Rungh magazine.[9][10]
Bibliography
Non-fiction
- The ideological condition: selected essays on history, race and gender{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Brill(2020). ISBN 978-90-04-44161-3
- Demography and democracy: essays on nationalism, gender and ideology{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Canadian Scholars' Press(2011). ISBN 978-1-55130-389-5[11]
- Inventing subjects: studies in hegemony, patriarchy, and colonialism{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Tulika(2001). ISBN 978-81-85229-47-8
- The dark side of the nation: essays on multiculturalism, nationalism and gender{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Canadian Scholars' Press(2009). ISBN 978-1-55130-172-3
- The writing on the wall: essays on culture and politics{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. TSAR(1993). ISBN 978-0-920661-30-7
- Thinking through: essays on feminism, Marxism and anti-racism{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Women's Press(1995). ISBN 978-0-88961-208-2
- The mirror of class: essays on Bengali theatre{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Papyrus(1998)
Fiction
- Coloured pictures{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Sister Vision Press(1991). ISBN 978-0-920813-86-7
- "Her mother's ashes" in Her mother's ashes and other stories by South Asian women in Canada and the United States{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. TSAR(1994). ISBN 978-0-920661-40-6
Poetry
- Doing time: poems{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Sister Vision(1986). ISBN 978-0920813010
- A separate sky{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Domestic Bliss(1982) Includes her English translation of Bengali poems by Subhas Mukhapadhyay, Manbendra Bandyopadhyay, and Shamshur Rahman.
As co-author
- Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. University of Toronto Press(2001). ISBN 978-1-4426-7800-2
As editor
- Unsettling relations: the university as a site of feminist struggles{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. South End Press(1992). ISBN 978-0-89608-452-0
- Returning the gaze: essays on racism, feminism, and politics{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Sister Vision(1993). ISBN 978-0-920813-55-3
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Himani Bannerji. Toronto Metropolitan University. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Himani Bannerji. Canadian Scholars. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 An Interview with Himani Bannerji. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature({Template:Date).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Asian American novelists: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook{{#if:Kain|, Kain}. Greenwood Press(2000). ISBN 978-0-313-30911-3
- ↑ Caribbean and South Asian writers in Canada: a bibliography of their works and of English-language criticism{{#if:Kandiuk|, Kandiuk}. Scarecrow Press(2007). ISBN 978-0-8108-5883-1
- ↑ Himani Bannerji. York Centre for Asian Research. Retrieved 2026-03-06.
- ↑ Building from Marx: Reflections on Class and Race. Social Justice({Template:Date).
- ↑ York professor receives prestigious Indian literary prize. YFile(2005-09-26). Retrieved 2026-03-06.
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- ↑ Inventing subjects: studies in hegemony, patriarchy, and colonialism{{#if:Bannerji|, Bannerji}. Tulika(2001). ISBN 978-81-85229-47-8