parallipsis
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also spelled paralepsis and paralipsis; the rhetorical strategy of emphasizing a point by seeming to pass over it
on the one hand, it marks him out as what he believes himself to be, pinning him to the White American Male paradigm, while on the other hand, it actively and repeatedly repudiates that label, invoking a kind of paralliptical self-negation
on DFW's self-consciousness in Signifying Rappers
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