Morals of reading, or: Can art be democratic?

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

http://lovegermanbooks.blogspot.de/2016/04/all-complaining-in-one-place.html

Four articles by Katy Derbyshire on the lack of women in English 
translation.

In the second, Derbyshire quotes Anna James with the words:

"Read diversely because our world is diverse."

Our world is certainly diverse, and I'd agree that there is a political 
obligation for citizens to keep themselves informed what's going on.

But can this be extended to art and are we morally obliged to read 
poetry and fiction along the standards of gender and ethnic diversity as 
defined by political correctness?

Would the decision to spend the rest of my reading life exclusively with 
the white, Anglo-Saxon, Christian, male and heterosexual author Thomas 
Pynchon transform me into a bad human being?

My answer to these questions is: No, not at all.

Stone me!

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Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l