WORKS

POETRY

Doing Time. Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1986.

A Separate Sky. Toronto: Domestic Bliss, 1982.


OTHER WORK

Bannerji, Himani, Shahrzad Mojab, and Judith Whitehead, eds. Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.

Bannerji, Himani, ed. The Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Gender. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2000.

Bannerji, Himani, ed. Thinking Through: Essays on Feminism, Marxism and Anti-Racism. Toronto: Women's Press, 1995.

Bannerji, Himani, ed. The Gaze: Essays on Racism, Feminism and Politics. Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1993.

Bannerji, Himani, ed. The Writing on the Wall: Essays on Culture and Politics. Toronto: TSAR, 1993.
Coloured Pictures. Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1991.

Bannerji, Himani, ed. Unsettling Relations: The University as a Site of Feminist Struggles. Toronto: Women’s Press, 1991.

The Politics of Representation: A Study of Class and Class Struggle in the Political Theatre of West Bengal. Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1988.

The Two Sisters. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1978.

CRITICISM

Dragland, Stan. “Other Reading: Himani Bannerji’s ‘The Sound Barrier.’” The Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad 15.2 (1997): 1.

Jacob, Susan. “Breaking the Circle: Recreating the Immigrant Self in Selected Works of Himani Bannerji.” Intersexions: Issues of Race and Gender in Canadian Women’s Writing. Eds. Coomi S. Vevaina and Barbara Godard. New Delhi: Creative, 1996. 189-196.

Kain, Geoffrey. “Himani Bannerji (1945- ).” Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. 8-12.

Kumar, Alka. “Voicing the Other: Himani Bannerji’s Poetics of Protest.” Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages Bulletin 9.1 (1997): 99-112.

“Multiculturalism is...Anti-Anti-Racism: A Conversation with Himani Bannerji.” Kinesis (1997): 8.

Nourbese Philip, Marlene. “Hard Time, Maximum Time: The Poetry of Krisantha Sri Bhaggiyadatta and Himani Bannerji.” South Asian Review 5.1 (1987).

Shahani, Roshan G. “‘Some Kind of Weapon’: Himani Bannerji and the Praxis of Resistance.” Intersexions: Issues of Race and Gender in Canadian Women’s Writing. Eds. Coomi S. Vevaina and Barbara Godard. New Delhi: Creative, 1996. 179-188.
BIOGRAPHY
Himani Bannerji is perhaps best known for her studies of Canadian literature and identity and her theorization of gender, race and multiculturalism. She was born in Bangladesh in 1942, and attended school in Calcutta, where she received her BA and MA. She earned her PhD from the University of Toronto, studying representations of class in the political theatre of West Bengal. Bannerji works as an associate professor of sociology at York University in Toronto. She has published two collections of poetry to date, two books of children’s literature, and has edited numerous collections of literary and sociological theory.

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