I think you're talking past one another
All art is inherently political, but anyone who specialises in reading literature from a marxist/ feminist/ racial perspective is not interested in the text. For them the text is only a vehicle.
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I dont think he means there's anything about the perspectives as such that bar an actual appreciation of lit, but that the sorts of people who adopt criticism from those perspectives happen not to be interested in it, i think
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No, you're right to take me to task and you make some good points. I agree, both declared and undeclared politics have equal weight on one's understanding of a text. And, since there is no apolitical art, neither can there be apolitical persons with apolitical interpretations ...
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