Testimony of a Shifter - Pérez, Emma
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"Imprisoned by the totalitarian government, Dr. Benito Espinoza practices for his weekly interrogations by recounting his story to his thirteen-year-old daughter. He tells her about turning his back on his ability to shift his gender from male to female-to Alejandra-to become a scholar in the Grand Library. Most scholars are Residents who inherited their seats and believe Descendants like Ben don't have the intellectual ability to be a person of letters."--

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"Imprisoned by the totalitarian government, Dr. Benito Espinoza practices for his weekly interrogations by recounting his story to his thirteen-year-old daughter. He tells her about turning his back on his ability to shift his gender from male to female-to Alejandra-to become a scholar in the Grand Library. Most scholars are Residents who inherited their seats and believe Descendants like Ben don't have the intellectual ability to be a person of letters."--
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Autorenporträt
EMMA PÉREZ is the author of Queering the Border (Arte Público Press, 2022), The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History (Indiana University Press, 1999), three novels and numerous personal essays. Her novel, Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory (University of Texas Press, 2009) received the Christopher Isherwood Writing Grant, the National Association for Chicana/Chicano Studies Regional Book Award for fiction in 2011 and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in 2010. Her book, Electra's Complex (Bella Books, 2015), is a mystery that mocks the perils of academe. Pérez was born in El Campo, Texas, and lives in Tucson, Arizona.