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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

James Wood suggested the term "hysterical realism"

lallating function

While lightly dismissing the "magazine people" as disingenuous, Wallace draws paralliptical attention to his own disingenuousness in writing the piece at all.