Kaushalya Bannerji (born Calcutta) is a Canadian poet, visual artist, and occasional essayist.
A resident of Toronto since the 1970s, Kaushalya Bannerji is the daughter of sociologist, philosopher, and professor Himani Bannerji and professor, translator, and writer, Manabendra Bandyopadhyay (1938-2020). In her pioneering article "A Lotus of Another Color", she delved into the cultural complexities sexuality adds to one's sense of self, especially coming from a socially conservative society. To Bannerji, this dilemma is enhanced by the willingness of many lesbians of the global South to keep their cultural identity and roots, while confronting jaundiced/misogynist and lesphobic opinions that their societies may have about sexuality.
Selected bibliography
1993: "No Apologies" in A Lotus of Another Color: An Unfolding of the South Asian Gay and Lesbian Experience, ed. Rakesh Ratti (Boston: Alyson Publications, Inc., ) 59–64. 1995: A New Remembrance: Poems, (Toronto: TSAR, ). 1996: Pearls of Passion: A Treasury of Lesbian Erotica (Ed. Makeda Silvera et al.) (Toronto: Sistervision Press, ) 1998: 2007: Let the Guitar Raise Her Hand, Selected Lyrics of Silvio Rodriguez (Translation from Spanish) (Kolkata: Tarjama Press, ) 2012: Grandfather's Kingdom, the Prose Poems of Josefina de Diego (Translation from Spanish) (Kolkata:Tarjama Press, )
References
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century Canadian essayists 20th-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian poets Canadian women poets Canadian writers of Asian descent Canadian people of Bengali descent Indian emigrants to Canada Canadian lesbian writers Naturalized citizens of Canada Writers from Kolkata Poets from Toronto Canadian LGBT poets Bengali Hindus 20th-century Bengalis 21st-century Bengalis Bengali writers Canadian Hindus 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian women non-fiction writers Bengali artists Bengali women artists 21st-century Canadian LGBT people 20th-century Canadian LGBT people 21st-century Canadian essayists