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| name = Sarojini Sahoo Stories
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| author = '''Sarojini Sahoo'''
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| country = [[India]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
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| genre = [[Short story|Short Stories]]
| published = 2006 ([[Grassroots]]) (India)
| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]]
| isbn = 81-89040-26-X
| congress= MLCM 2007/00190 (P) PK2579.S2368
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'''''Sarojini Sahoo Stories''''' is an anthology of stories by Indian feminist writer [[Sarojini Sahoo]], written originally in [[Oriya literature|Oriya]]. The anthology was published in 2006 by the publisher Grassroots [[Kolkata]], [[Bhubaneswar]], [[India]].

== Literary theory==
Though in her stories [[Sarojini Sahoo|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 now. In the nineteenth century, the social values are the dominion factor in [[Oriya literature]] but in post independent age, more individual value-based fictions came to the light. In this context, [[Sarojini Sahoo|Sarojini]] says: "As a feminist I think I am more a writer and as a writer I think I am more a feminist."<ref>[http://www.indereunion.net/actu/sarojini/interSarojini.htm Sarojini’s Interview], accessed 30 April 2008</ref>

[[Sarojini Sahoo|Sarojini]] is considered as [[Simone de Beauvoir]] of [[India]],<ref>[http://www.kritya.in/0503/En/name_of_poetry.html Among these writers Sarojini Sahoo is following very strong lines of feminism and has touched almost all issues of feminism in her writings. Sarojini Sahoo (b. 1956) – Indian feminist writer, is considered India's equivalent of Simone de Beauvoir. ], accessed 16 April 2010</ref> but Sarojini is not like the feminists of the [[second-wave feminism|second wave]]. She has a distinct view on "[[Other (philosophy)|Other]]" theory and according to her for their "[[eternal feminine|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 femalehood which is completely separate from the man's world. She writes with a greater consciousness of women's bodies, which would create a more honest and appropriate style of openness, fragmentation and non-linearity. Her fiction always projects 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 Sarojini's famous stories like "Smoke", and "Few Pages of Vacant Lot" are not found in this collection, though their English versions are available and readers can also read them from different websites.

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 literature|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==
*[[Sarojini Sahoo]]
*[[List of feminists]]
*[[List of feminist literature]]
*''[[The Dark Abode]]''

==References==
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==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]
*[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]

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