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necessarily, but just the otherness.
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So, in these last pages, otherness gets collapsed back into
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racial otherness, and I think perhaps this is why
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Ernestine emerges as a stereotyped character.
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whether this constitutes a critique of Nathan.
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He is folding an analysis of identity back into racial stereotype,
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an analysis of identity as blank.
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They have no interiority.
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One question that you could ask is
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Is Nathan being brought to task for stealing the story of Coleman Silk?
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Is this making passing, racial passing,
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into the ultimate form of identity,