One thing I like about all the recent writing on political correctness in art (e.g. essays by Rothfeld, Greenwell, and Berg) is that they go beyond the idea that content of a story is orthogonal to its aesthetic merit—each of them attempts to articulate a sense of aesthetics that encompasses an artist’s political and social aims. Whereas there is a coun…
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