Sentence:  However, the question remains as to why the text does not <WSD>desublimate</WSD> the hard-boiled genre's investments around gender, sexuality, race, and nation with the same sort of scrupulous rigor that it demystifies the economic and social ideology of the form. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Make explicit that which has been sublimated or obscured because it is not socially acceptable.