And I thought that while she is not writing testimony in the way that Dorfman describes, what Hong is doing in Delusions of Whiteness is accusing, recording, inspiring, and analyzing. And I thought about these strategies—to accuse, to record, to inspire, and to analyze—in complicated ways. That inspiration happens through accusation and recording and analysis. That analysis is a form of accusation. That the avant-garde’s squeamishness about identity poetics has to do with what happens when we move beyond recording, and into the subjective and perhaps populist realms of accusation and inspiration.
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