Chabria, Priya Sarukkai
Entry updated 2 September 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1955- ) Indian poet, translator and author; of sf interest is Generation 14 (2008), whose protagonist, a 14th-generation Clone in twenty-fourth century India, struggles against imposed Amnesia and Sex taboos (see Women in SF). She tells her own story with very considerable intensity. The protagonist of Clone (2019) is the Clone – enclosed in a Cyborg body – of a dissident writer, who has died suddenly. Mysteriously endowed with something like a Time-Viewer capacity to revisit moments in her original's life, the clone is able to gain perspective on the Imperial gaze that has distorted India's self-regard (see also Feminism). [JC]
Priya Sarukkai Chabria
born Chennai, India: 1955
works
- Generation 14 (New Delhi, India: Penguin/Zubaan Books, 2008) [pb/]
- Clone (New Delhi, India: Penguin/Zubaan Books, 2019) [pb/]
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