Morals of reading, or: Can art be democratic?

[Ian Livingston]

Everybody must get so.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 2:16 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de
> wrote:

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> http://lovegermanbooks.blogspot.de/2016/04/all-complaining-in-one-place.html
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> Four articles by Katy Derbyshire on the lack of women in English
> translation.
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> In the second, Derbyshire quotes Anna James with the words:
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> "Read diversely because our world is diverse."
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> 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?
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> 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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