Kaushalya Bannerji Explained

Kaushalya Bannerji (born Calcutta^[1]) 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.^[2]

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: Book: Kaushalya Bannerji. The faces of five o'clock. 1998-11-11. Sister Vision Press. 978-1-896705-10-1 .
• 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,)

Notes and References

1. http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n94-47640.html Library of Congress Name Authority File
2. Karla Jay; Dyke Life: From Growing Up to Growing Old A Celebration of the Lesbian Experience. Basic Books, 1996, pp 40.