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Introduction |
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Dr.
Sarojini Sahoo
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Well
known for her frankness,Sarojini Sahoo, is a prime figure
and trendsetter of feminism
in contemporary Oriya literature. For her; feminism is
not a gender
problem or any confrontational attack on male hegemony.
So, it is quite different from that of Virginia
Woolf or Judith
Butler. She 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 the adolescence, the pregnancy, the fear factors like
being raped or being condemned by society and the concept
of a bad girl etc always have the thematic exposure in
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Born in a small town of Dhenkanal in Orissa (India), Sarojini has an MA and PhD
degrees in Oriya Literature and a Bachelor of Law from Utkal University.
She now teaches at a Degree college in Belpahar, Jharsuguda of Orissa. She
is the second daughter of Mr.Ishwar Chandra Sahoo and Mrs.(Late) Nalini Devi
and has married to Mr.Jagadish
Mohanty , a veteran
writer of Orissa.and has a son and
a daughter.
She has been conferred with the Orissa Sahitya Academy Award,
1993, the Jhankar Award, 1992, the Bhubaneswar Book Fair
Award and the Prajatantra Award. She has
published eight anthologies of short stories and five novels. Recently an English
anthology of her translated stories is published by ‘Grassroots’ of
Kolkata/Bhubaneswar.Her other anthologies are: Sukhara Muhanmuh (1981), NijaGahirareNije
(1989), Amrutara Pratikshare (1992), Chowkath (1994), Tarali Jauthiba Durga (1995),
Deshantari (1999), and Dukha Apramita (2006). The novels are: Upanibesh (1998),
Pratibandi (1999), Swapna Khojali Mane (2000) Mahajatra (2001) and Gambhiri Ghara
(2006). She has been widely translated and published in different Indian languages.
Her stories have been included in anthologies published by Harper Collins, National
Book Trust ,Gnanapith and Sahitya Akademi.Once she was also the editor of Oriya
Literary Magazine the Pallaba and fiction oriented English timely journal the
Breakthrough.
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| Delhi Doordarshan,
the National Channel of India has featured her life style
and
creations in its special tele-serial “Literary Postcard
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