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| What, for example, would have been the impact of chiastic patterns or chain sentences or parallelism or transitions upon the temporal, aural experiences of hearers. Yet Ellison's chiastic inversion, through Tod Clifton, of the conventional white puppeteer/black puppet relationship proves that such archetypical roles are overly simplistic and, moreover, ripe for revision: Tod Clifton, the puppet master, is black, and his "'darky' entertainer [puppet] is white. Chiastic structure emphasizes the most characteristic elements of each site in the first and final verses. |
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