The Dark Abode

(Paperback - 07.10.2008)
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Dr. Sarojini Sahoo

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This is a collage presentation of south Asian feminist novelist Sarojini Sahoo’s novel The Dark Abode and American poet painter Ed Baker’s sketch book Uma. It is the English translation of Sahoo’s much-acclaimed Oriya novel, Gambhiri Ghara, which was first published in a magazine in 2005. The same year, it also appeared in book form and proved to be a best seller. A Bengali translation has also been published from Bangladesh as Mithya Gerosthali by Anupam Prakashani Dhaka, and has gained a great response from Bengali readers. The novel deals with the terrorism that people often face from the micro to the macro sphere. It begins with questioning the mere physicality of the man-woman relationship and then transports the reader into the higher planes of platonic love. Kuki, the central character of the novel, is a Hindu woman from India who falls (and then rises) in love with a Muslim artist from Pakistan. The unusualness of the socio-cultural background of these two characters is portrayed by Sahoo in a sensitive and convincing manner. The reader becomes familiar with two sets of roles that Kuki plays; that of a lover and that of a wife. She subtly balances these two roles and at the same time, highlights the superiority of a wife in a pragmatic world. But the novel is not merely a love story. Though love is a part of the novel, it deals with a much broader topic: the providence of a woman in India. The Dark Abode is as powerful as any of Sarojini Sahoo’s most popular creations. Like in all her other masterpieces, this novel will not betray her characteristic of being a feminist writer and is sure to peak the interests of both new and old readers alike. Ed Baker tries to paint Uma, the Hindu goddess, also known for feminine power. It is said in the SAIMDARUA LAHIRI that she is the source of all power in the universe and because of her; Lord Shiva gets all of his powers. She is often depicted as half of Lord Shiva:the supreme God and also a major symbol of female sexuality.
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*A review in Portuguese by a Brazilian reader
Review by Antonio Camelo
GAMBHIRI GHARA , o que é isto? Na realidade é uma expressão indiana na linguagem oryia, língua falada na região leste da India, mais precisamente no estado de Orissa, utilizada para nomear uma dependência especial da casa, em inglês seria “The Dark Abode ” ou simplesmente “quarto escuro”. Pois é, este quarto é verdadeiramente especial onde é permitido o acesso apenas aos anciãos da família, pois acredita-se que lá está uma divindade da cultura local, além de ser utilizado também de guardar os ativos mais valiosos da família.
Fiz esta intrudução para poder apresentar uma pessoa muito epecial, a Dr. Sarojini Sahoo, renomada escritora da literatura oryia, autora de inúmeros contos e várias novelas, entre elas justamente uma, chamada The Dark Abode. E por que escolheu este nome? Para simbolizar o coração, um lugar também especial onde guardamos coisas valiosas e onde estão nossas divindades pessoais.
The Dark Abode já está traduzida para as línguas mais importantes da India e ultrapassando fronteiras, tendo sido lançada recentemente em Bangladesh, no idioma Bengali. Atualmente foi vertida para o inglês .
The Dark Abode é uma emocionante narrativa que vai do amor à política internacional.
Muito atual, começando com um triângulo amoroso, nascido na internet, envolvendo duas culturas, a indiana e a paquistanesa, expondo os conflitos entre estas culturas e a força maior do amor...
Sarojini Sahoo usa e abusa, com maestria dos cordões dos seus marionetes literários.
Mas, quem é afinal Sarojini Sahoo? Hoje uma das maiores expressões do feminismo na India, com visão diferente de Virgínia Woolf ou Judith Butler, hoje é considerada a Simone de Beauvoir local, verbete da Wikipédia e está entre as 100 maiores feministas de todos os tempos, inclusive tendo sido entrevistada pelo About.com, um site do New York Times!
E porque louvar uma criatura destas? É a minha homenagem a todas as mulheres emergentes, de Nathalie Rogers a dona Maria de qualquer lugar do mundo...
Sarojini Sahoo é um exemplo de superação. Seu pai esperava que seu primeiro filho fosse homem, nasceu uma menina, ficou frustrado mas, esperou que o seguinte viesse de acordo com o seu desejo, satisfazendo seu orgulho cultural (maxismo) e, então veio Sarojini. E agora? Simplesmente radicalizou, não a eliminando mas, criando-a e educando-a a como se fosse um menino. Nome de mulher, apelido de menino, cabelo e roupas de menino, isto até os dias da puberdade, quando ela quebrou a redoma e iniciou a sua saga pessoal. Hoje mãe de um casal de filhos e casada com o veterano escritor Jagadish Mohanti.
É verdadeiramente uma mulher emergente, uma voz para o mundo, tendo sido objeto de documentários e seus textos dramatizados e apresentados no canal oficial da TV indiana.
Destacar-se em um universo de alguns milhões de indivíduos pode parecer fácil, mas em se tratando de India com bem mais de um bilhão de habitantes a coisa é outra...
Parabéns Sarojini Sahoo, você merece ...!!!


GAMBHIRI GHARA [translated from Portugese]

What is ‘gambhiri ghara?’

Actually, it is an Indian expression in the Oryia language, a language spoken in east India in Orissa State. It is used to designate a special place in the house: the ‘dark abode’ or ‘black room.’ Only the eldest members of the family are allowed in this truly special room because they believe that there is a deity of the local culture. Besides, it is used to keep the most precious things of the family.

I did this preface to present a very special person: Dr. Sarojini Sahoo, the famous Oryian author. She has written many books and novels, among them, Gambhiri Ghara. And why? To symbolize the heart; a place also special, where we keep valuable things and where we keep our own personal deities.

Gambhiri Ghara is a sensitively-written narrative that goes from love to international politics. It begins with a three-way love affair, born on the internet, involving two different cultures: Indian and Pakistani. The novel effectively shows the conflicts between these cultures and shows how the large force of love overcomes them. She works very well the strings of their marionettes.
Gambhiri Ghara has been translated into the major languages in India and is now being published in other languages throughout the world, well beyond the borders of India. It was released in Bangladesh in Bengali, sponsored by the most important local newspaper there, and has now been translated into English under the title: The Dark Abode.

But who is Sarojini Sahoo? Today, she is the largest voice of feminism in India and has a very different point of view. Unlike Virgínia Woolf or Judith Butler, she is considered to be the local Simone de Beauvoir. Sahoo is included in Wikipedia and is among the top-100 women’s rights activists of all times. She was recently interviewed by About.com, an entity of The New York Times!

Sarojini Sahoo is an example of superation [?? I can’t find this word]. Her father wanted his first-born child to be a boy. Instead, a girl was born. Frustrated, he waited to see if his next child would come to fulfill his wishes and satisfy his cultural pride. A daughter, Sarojini, came instead.

What did he do then? He just raised and educated her as a boy. She had the name of a girl but the nickname, hairstyle, and clothes of a boy. This went on until she was a teenager. Then, she broke the glass dome she was in and began her personal saga, a saga that has made her what she is today.

And why worship a woman like this? This is my homage to every woman, from Nathalie Rogers to any Mary Anywhere. She is truly a voice to the word, an emergent woman with her own ideas of feminism. Many documentaries have been done about her and many of her texts have been dramatized on India´s official TV channel.

To make yourself visible among millions may look like something easy to do, but when you make yourself visible to more than a billion people in India, this is another thing. Congratulations Sarojini Sahoo! You deserve it!

Sahoo is the mother of two children: a son and a daughter, and is married to the famous writer Jadadish Mohanti.
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I enjoyed the novel; I appreciate that is widely accepted. I ascertain my support to the philosophy inculcated in the novel
Sarojiniji has brought out her faculty as a writer in an entirely novel atmosphere of web and net. Man-woman relation is not a patriarchal hegemonial affair; it must be a human to human affair.
I am an arden fan of Sarojiniji.
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Details of Book: The Dark Abode Book: The Dark Abode
Author: Dr. Sarojini Sahoo
ISBN:

8190695622


ISBN-13:

9788190695626

,

978-8190695626


Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 07.10.2008
Publisher: Indian Age Communication
Number of Pages: 174
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