Himani Bannerji
Bengali-Canadian author and sociologist
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Himani Bannerji (born 1942) is a Bengali-Canadian author and sociologist.[1][2][3]
Jadavpur University, M.A.
University of Toronto, M.A.
University of Toronto, Ph.D.
Himani Bannerji | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1942 (age 83–84) British India |
| Education | Visva-Bharati University, B.A. Jadavpur University, M.A. University of Toronto, M.A. University of Toronto, Ph.D. |
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. Leiden: Brill. 2020. ISBN 978-90-04-44161-3.
- Demography and democracy: essays on nationalism, gender and ideology. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press. 2011. ISBN 978-1-55130-389-5.[11]
- Inventing subjects: studies in hegemony, patriarchy, and colonialism. New Delhi: Tulika. 2001. ISBN 978-81-85229-47-8.
- The dark side of the nation: essays on multiculturalism, nationalism and gender. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-55130-172-3.
- The writing on the wall: essays on culture and politics. Toronto: TSAR. 1993. ISBN 978-0-920661-30-7.
- Thinking through: essays on feminism, Marxism and anti-racism. Toronto: Women's Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-88961-208-2.
- The mirror of class: essays on Bengali theatre. Calcutta: Papyrus. 1998.
Fiction
- Coloured pictures. Toronto: Sister Vision Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-920813-86-7.
- "Her mother's ashes" in Aziz, Nurjehan, ed. (1994). Her mother's ashes and other stories by South Asian women in Canada and the United States. Toronto: TSAR. ISBN 978-0-920661-40-6.
Poetry
- Doing time: poems. Toronto: Sister Vision. 1986. ISBN 978-0920813010.
- A separate sky. Toronto: Domestic Bliss. 1982. Includes her English translation of Bengali poems by Subhas Mukhapadhyay, Manbendra Bandyopadhyay, and Shamshur Rahman.
As co-author
- Bannerji, Himani; Mojab, Shahrzad; Whitehead, Judith, eds. (2001). Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4426-7800-2.
As editor
- Unsettling relations: the university as a site of feminist struggles. Boston: South End Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-89608-452-0.
- Returning the gaze: essays on racism, feminism, and politics. Toronto: Sister Vision. 1993. ISBN 978-0-920813-55-3.