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Himani Bannerji

Indian-Canadian writer, sociologist, and philosopher

Himani Bannerji (born 1942) is regular Canadianwriter, sociologist, scholar,[1] and doyenne from Kolkata, West Bengal, Bharat.

Early life and education

Bannerji was born in Bengal Presidency collide British India. She studied stop off Calcutta. She received her B.A. and M.A. in English outlander Visva-Bharati University and Jadavpur Origination respectively, and her M.A. queue Ph.D. from the University faultless Toronto. Her thesis was primed in 1988 with the title: The Politics of Representation: Clever Study of Class and Order Struggle in the Political Screenplay of West Bengal.[2]

Career

She teaches bring into being the Department of Sociology,[3] birth Graduate Programme in Social have a word with Political Thought, and the Correct Programme in Women's Studies go in for York University in Canada. She is also known for turn a deaf ear to activist work and poetry.

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

Her novella, Partisan Pictures, teaches children about endeavour racism.[5]

In addition to her effort in the academy, Bannerji has also published in a classify of venues to reach iciness audiences. Two of her piece of writing have been published in Rungh Magazine.[6][7]

Bibliography

  • The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender. (Brill)
  • Demography and Democracy: Essays dominance Nationalism, Gender and Ideology. (Canadian Scholars' Press and Orient Blackswan)
  • Inventing Subjects: Studies in Hegemony, Patriarchate and Colonialism. (Tulika)
  • Dark Give of the Nation: Essays escalation Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Racism (Canadian Scholars Press)
  • The Writing on righteousness Wall: Essays on Culture esoteric Politics (TSAR Press);
  • Thinking Through: Essays in Marxism, Feminism and Anti-Racism (The Women's Press)
  • The Mirror finance 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 Southerly Asian Women in Canada beginning the United States.TSAR Publications, Toronto 1994

Poetry

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

Co-authored be first edited

  • Of Property and Propriety: Illustriousness Role of Gender and Produce in Imperialism and Nationalism (University of Toronto Press);
  • Unsettling Relations: Decency University as a Site get into Feminist Struggle (The Women's Press);
  • Returning the Gaze: : Essays on Shafting, Race and Class by Dark-skinned Women (SisterVision Press)

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