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Sarojini Sahoo (Oriya: ସରୋଜିନୀ ସାହୁ ) (born 1956) is an Indian feminist writer who has received the Orissa Sahitya Academy Award, 1993, the Jhankar Award, 1992, the Bhubaneswar Book Fair Award and the Prajatantra Award. Oriya (ଓଡ଼ିଆ oṛiā) is an official language of the state of Orissa, India, a region known at different stages of history as Kalinga Udra Utkala Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Feminism is a discourse that involves various movements theories, and Philosophies which are concerned with the issue of Gender difference, advocate

Born in a small town of Dhenkanal in Orissa (India), Sarojini has MA and PhD degrees in Oriya Literature and a Bachelor of Law from Utkal University. Orissa (ଓଡ଼ିଶା is a state located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. Oriya (ଓଡ଼ିଆ oṛiā) is one of the Indian Languages mainly spoken in the Indian state of Orissa. Utkal University, Bhubaneswar is the oldest university in Orissa and the seventeenth oldest university in India.

She now teaches at a degree college in Belpahar, Jharsuguda, Orissa. WikipediaWikiProject Indian cities for details --> Belpahar is a town and a Notified area committee in Jharsuguda district in the state of WikipediaWikiProject Indian cities for details --> Jharsuguda Municipality is the headquarters of Jharsuguda District in the Indian

She is the second daughter of Ishwar Chandra Sahoo and (late) Nalini Devi and is married to Jagadish Mohanty, a veteran writer of Orissa, and has a son and a daughter. Jagadish Mohanty (born 1951 is a renowned Oriya writer considered as a trendsetter in modern Oriya fiction has received the prestigious Sarala Award 2003 Orissa Sahitya Orissa (ଓଡ଼ିଶା is a state located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. [1]

Contents

Short stories

She has published nine anthologies of short stories. ANThology is the first Major label album by Alien Ant Farm released on March 6, 2001 in the USA and March 19

Her other Oriya anthologies of short stories are:

The most recent selected short stories were translated into English from Oriya and published by Grassroots (Kolkata). English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Oriya (ଓଡ଼ିଆ oṛiā) is one of the Indian Languages mainly spoken in the Indian state of Orissa.


She has been conferred with Orissa Sahitya Akademi Award and Bhubaneswar Book Fair award for her short stories collection Amrutara Pratikshare.

Novels

Seven novels are published so far:

Her novel Gambhiri Ghara proved to be a bestseller in Oriya literature. Her novels have gained a reputation for the frankness about sexuality and of feminist outlook. This novel has been translated in to Bengali(Bangladesh) under the title of "Mithya Gerosthali"(ISBN No :984 404 287-9) and has been published by Anupam prakashani, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2007 .

Awards

She has been conferred with:

Feminism

Sarojini Sahoo is a prime figure and trendsetter of feminism in contemporary Oriya literature. Feminism is a discourse that involves various movements theories, and Philosophies which are concerned with the issue of Gender difference, advocate For her, feminism is not a "gender problem" or any confrontational attack on male hegemony. Hegemony (hɨˈdʒɛməni (Amer /hɨˈɡɛməni/ (Brit (ἡγεμονία hēgemonía) is a concept that has been used to describe and explain the dominance of one social So, it is quite different from that of Virginia Woolf or Judith Butler. (Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941 was an English Novelist and Essayist, regarded as one of the foremost Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American Post-structuralist philosopher who has contributed to the fields of Feminism She accepts feminism as a total entity of femalehood 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. . [2] . Her fictions always project a feminine sensibility from puberty to menopause. Menopause is the permanent shutting down of the female Reproductive system, a considerable length of time before the end of the lifespan 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. Pregnancy ( Latin graviditas) is the carrying of one or more offspring known as a Fetus or Embryo, inside the Uterus of a Female Rape, also referred to as Sexual assault, is an Assault by a person involving Sexual intercourse with or Sexual penetration of another person

Her feminism is always linked with the sexual politics of a woman. She denies patriarchy limits of sexual expression for a woman and she identifies women's sexual liberation as the real motive behind the women's movement. The sexual revolution refers to the well-documented changes in social thought and codes of behaviour related to sexuality throughout the Western world that continues to evolve . [3] For her, orgasm is the body's natural call to feminist politics: if being a woman is this good, women must be worth something. An orgasm (sexual climax is the conclusion of the plateau phase of the sexual response cycle, and may be experienced by both males and females Her novels like Upanibesh, Pratibandi and Gambhiri Ghara cover a myriad of areas from sexuality to philosophy, from the politics of the home to politics of the world. Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language According to Linda Lowen , as an Indian feminist Sarojini has written extensively about the interior lives of women and how their burgeoning sexuality is seen as a threat to traditional patriarchal societies. Her novels and short stories treat women as sexual beings and probe culturally sensitive topics such as rape, abortion and menopause from a female perspective. . [4]

Sexuality

Sexuality is something that can be related to a lot of other aspects of culture, tightly linked with an individual life, or into the evolution of a culture. Anyone’s class or ethnic or geographic identity could be closely associated to his/her sexuality, or any one’s sense of art or literature. Sexuality is not just an entity in itself. But still, either in west or in east, there is a reluctant outlook towards sexuality, and society has always tried to hide it from any open forum. The censorship on speech, and adding decorum to dress and declaring the sexual organs. Censorship is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable harmful or sensitive as determined by a censor Decorum (from the Latin: "proper fit becoming" was a principle of classical Rhetoric, poetry and theatrical theory

But neither the society, nor the legislature, even the judiciary, also do not stand by the side of sexuality to support it. In the West, James Joyce’s Ulysses or even Radclyffe Hall's Loneliness in the Well or Virginia Woolf’s Orlando are some examples which have to suffer a lot for describing sexuality in literature. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 &ndash 13 January 1941 was an Irish expatriate writer widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 Radclyffe Hall (August 12 1880 - October 7 1943 (born Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall) was an English poet and author of eight novels including the Lesbian classic Orlando is an influential novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. In the west, sexuality in literature grew with feminism. Simone De Beauvoir in her book The Second Sex, first elaborately described the gender role and problem away from the biological differences. The Second Sex ( French: Le Deuxième Sexe, June 1949 is one of the best known works of the French existentialist Simone de Beauvoir In Oriya literature, Sarojini is considered as a prime person to discuss sexuality in her fiction with a sincere effort to express her feminist ideas. . [5]

The novel Upanibesh was the first attempt in Oriya Literature to focus the sexuality as a part of social revolt by any woman. . [6]

Medha, the protagonist of Sarojini’s novel, was a bohemian. See also Bohemianism In modern usage the term " Bohemian " (sometimes shortened to "boho" is applied to people who live unconventional usually artistic In her pre-marital stage, she was thinking that it was boring to live with a man life-long. Perhaps she wanted a chain free life, where there would be only love, only sex and wouldn’t be any monotony. But she had to marry Bhaskar. Can Indian society imagine a lady with bohemianism?

In her novel Pratibandi,. [7] Sarojini has also described the thematic development of sexuality in a woman. Priyanka, the protagonist of the novel has to encounter the loneliness in the exile of Saragpali, a remote village of India. This lonliness develops into a sexual urge and soon Priyanka finds herself sexually attached with a former Member of Parliament. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Though there is an age gap between them, his intelligence impresses her and she discovers a hidden archaeologist in him. Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek grc ἀρχαιολογία archaiologia – grc ἀρχαῖος archaīos Sarojini has painted successfully the difference of sensibility towards sexuality among male and female. Sarojini has her own credibility for the frankness to deals with the sensitive matters either it may be in politics or in sexuality. She has gained a reputation and has her own place in the history of Oriya fiction.

Her novel Gambhiri Ghara she describes an unusual relationship between two people, a Hindu house wife of India and a Muslim artist of Pakistan. A Hindu ( Devanagari: हिन्दू is an adherent of the philosophies and scriptures of Hinduism, a set of religious, Philosophical A Muslim (مسلم pronounced Muslim, not Muzlim) is an adherent of the Religion Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and It is a net oriented novel. A woman meets a very sexually experienced man. One day he asks if she had any such experience. The woman, Kuki, scolds him and insults him by calling him a caterpillar. She said without love lust is like hunger of a caterpillar. Gradually they become involved with love, lust and spiritually. That man considers her as his daughter, lover, mother, and above all these as a Goddess. They both madly love each other, through the internet and on the phone. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks They use obscene language; they kiss each other online. Kuki does not lead a happy conjugal life though she has a love marriage with Aniket. The novel is not limited to only a love story. It has a greater aspect. It deals with the relationship between State and individual. . [8] Safique, who is not a Muslim by temperament, and as a historian, thinks the Pakistan of today has separated itself from its roots and looks towards Arabian legends for his history. He protests that the syllabus of history for the school would start from seventh century AD, not from the Mahenjodaro and Harappa. This broad Safique was once arrested after the bomb blast of London for allegation of being associated with the terrorist. But is it a true fact? Later Kuki came to know that Safiques is trapped by a military junta. The ex-lover of Tabassum had revenged on Safique by arresting him with an allegation of terrorism.

Here Sarojini deals with the question of terrorism . Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion [9] There is often discussion about terrorism caused by an individual or by a group. Society rarely discusses terrorism caused by a state. What is a state? Is it a group of people that resides within a political and geographical boundaries? Are a state’s identity, mood and wishes separate from its ruler? Is the wish of George W. Bush not considered as the wish of America? Has it reflected the mood and wish of the people of America? So, every time, the state’s arranged anarchism or terrorism is merely a reflection of a terrorism caused by an individual. George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. The great truth lies beneath Safique, as a terrorist develops from the mind of a military man.

Thus from sexuality to politics, Sarojini’s frank view always stir the readers. . [10]

See also

External links

References

  1. ^ Official web site, accessed 11 August 2007
  2. ^ [http://orissadiary.com/personality/writer/sarojinisahoo%20.asp access 8 may 2008
  3. ^ [The HarperCollins Book of Oriya Short Stories :ISBN 81-7223-312-4
  4. ^ Indian Feminist Author Sarojini Sahoo Explores Female Sexuality
  5. ^ [Oriya Women’s Writing :Paul St-Pierre and Ganeswar Mishra,Sateertha Publication,ISBN No :81-900749-0-3
  6. ^ [The Amari Gapa : Special Issue on Sarojini :May-July ,2006
  7. ^ [ISBN No :81-7411-253-7
  8. ^ [http://http://www.boloji.com/women/099.htm accessed 8 May 2008
  9. ^ [http://oriyanari.com/id21.html acessed 8 May 2008
  10. ^ [The Amari Gapa : Special Issue on Sarojini :May-July ,2006
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