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again on 108, is the raw "I,"
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all the subtlety of being Silky Silk.
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So there you have encapsulated, in a very short amount of prose,
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a major form--narrative form, narrative dynamic--
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of the Identity Plot as a genre.
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On 144, you get another version of that, slightly more personalized
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to his family.
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This is another version of identity and
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what Coleman thinks about it.
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This is after we get the history of Coleman's family,
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his ancestors, and we're told that he is not the first to pass as white
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or to disappear from the black family in to which he was born: