Kaushalya Bannerji

Kaushalya Bannerjee. Courtesy YouTube.

Kaushalya Bannerji is a Canadian poet.

Life

Bannerji was born in Calcutta (Kolkata), India, the daughter of Himani Bannerji. She has been a resident of Toronto, Ontario, Canada since 1993.

Bannerji studied law at the University of Ottawa. She is a widely anthologized poet, who has also published 2 collections of poetry.

In her article, "A Lotus of Another Color," she dealt with the cultural]] complexities sexuality adds to one's sense of self, and identity, especially coming from a social conservative society. The dilemma is enhanced by the willingness of many lesbians to keep their cultural identity and roots, while confronting the jaundiced opinions of sexuality from the individual's societies.

Publications

Poetry

• A New Remembrance: Poems. Toronto: TSAR, 1993.
• The Faces of Five O'Clock: Poems. Toronto: Sister Vision, 1996.

Non-fiction

• "No Apologies" in A Lotus of Another Color: An Unfolding of the South Asian Gay and Lesbian Experience (edited by Rakesh Ratti). Boston: Alyson Publications, Inc., 1993. 59-64.

Translated

• Sylvio Rodriguez, Let the Guitar Raise Her Hand: Selected lyrics (translation from Spanish). Kolkata: Tarjama Press, 2007.
• Josefina de Diego, Grandfather's Kingdom: Prose poems (translation from Spanish). Kolkata: Tarjama Press, 2012.

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Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

See also

• Asian-Canadian poets
• List of Canadian poets

External links

Poems

• "I Wanted to Write"
• Kaushalya Bannerji's Haiku

Books

• Kaushalya Bannerji at Amazon.com
• Works by or about Kaushalya Bannerji in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

About

• Kaushalya Bannerji at Asian Heritage in Canada.