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cultural politics.
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So, the end point of this is a very widespread argument in the 1990s
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about where politics happens, and that argument revolves around
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novels that feature the Identity Plot 'cause those are the kinds of
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novels that people thought of as either advancing or resisting the
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hegemony of a white Western tradition that was oppressive
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to minority people.
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By the way, this final incarnation of the Identity Plot is going to be
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very important to us when we read The Human Stain.
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That novel is deeply embedded in that final iteration of it.
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How else do you know it's a dominant convention?
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Well, it has an end.