Sarojini Sahoo Stories

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author = Sarojini Sahoo
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country = India
language = English
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genre = Short Stories
publisher = Grassroots (India)
release_year = 2006
media_type = Print (Hardback
isbn = ISBN 81 89040-26-X
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Sarojini Sahoo Stories is an anthology of stories by Indian feminist writer Sarojini Sahoo, written originally in Oriya. The anthology was published in 2006 by the publisher Grassroots Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, India.

Literary theory

Though in her stories Sarojini deals with the social issues but she is basically a writer of Individual values .In Oriya literature , a reader can see there is always a conflict between social values and individual values.This conflict can be seen from the first short story Rebati written by Fakir Mohan Senapati to till now .In nineteenth Century, the social values are the dominion factor in Oriya Fictions but in post independent age , more individual vale based fictions came to the light.In this context , Sarojini says : “As a feminist I think I am more a writer and as a writer I think I am more a feminist.” . [ [http://www.indereunion.net/actu/sarojini/interSarojini.htm Sarojini’s Interview] , accessed 30 April,2008]

In Oriya literature, Sarojini is considered as Simone de Beauvoir of India,Fact|date=September 2008 but Sarojini is not like the feminist of second wave. She has a distinct view on “Other ” theory and according to her for their "Eternal Feminine" women are forced to relinquish their claims to transcendence and authentic subjectivity by a progressively more stringent acceptance of the "passive" and "alienated" role . It is not always due to man’s "active" and "subjective" demands. They are the woman, unknowingly accept the subjugation as a part of ‘subjectivity’’ Sarojini accepts feminism as a total entity of female hood which is completely separate from the man’s world. She writes with a greater consciousness of women bodies, which would create a more honest and appropriate style of openness, fragmentation and non-linearity. Her fictions always project a feminine sensibility from puberty to menopause. The feminine feelings like restrictions in adolescence, pregnancy, the fear factors like being raped or being condemned by society and the concept of a bad girl, etc, always have thematic exposure in her novels and short stories. Some of the famous stories of Sarojini like “Smoke” , “Few Pages of Vacant Lot” are not found in this collections , though their English version are available and readers can read them from different websites also .

The book starts with Sarojini’s famous story “Rape” and ends with “Behind the Scene”.Both the stories were responsible to raise a storm of controversy when these were published originally first time in Oriya.In “Rape”, the writer asks a question whether a woman has no right for her sexual desire even if in her dream ? And in “Behind the Scene” she compares the lesbian love with heterosexual love.

See also

*List of feminists
*List of feminist literature
* [http://womensissues.about.com/od/feminismequalrights/a/FeminisminIndia_2.htm Interview with Sarojini at ' The New York Times' owned Portal]
* [http://www.indereunion.net/actu/sarojini/interSarojini.htm Interview with Sarojini at French Portal] .

External links

* [http://sarojinisahoo.com Sarojini Sahoo] - official web site
* [http://sarojinisahoo.blogspot.om Sarojini Sahoo] - Blog
* [http://www.sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Sahoo+Sarojini Sarojini Sahoo] - Sawnet Bio
* [http://oriyanari.com/id45.html Oriya Nari]
* [http://orissadiary.com/personality/writer/sarojinisahoo%20.asp Orissa Diary]

References