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Lenore embodies the kind of Hegelian dialectic of servitude characteristic of Wallace's engagement with ideas of identity and connection

Wallace was overwhelmed by what he saw as the alterity of the female experience; that is to say, its total alienation from his experience of the world.

whether, in other words, rap is a stereotype or a synecdoche?

He struggles to decide whether rap merely represents the decocted-and-simplified desires of the other, or whether it in fact represents the reality of the other