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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  A lot of people are missing the point.  Traditional literary scholarship does not mean "there's only one proper way of reading and that's it."  It's just a rejection of faddish ideological interpretations.  It's about literary quality not identity politics.

There are many fine authors from outside the US and Europe.  For example Borges and Vargas Llosa in Latin America.  But you don't see Identity Politics practitioners championing them because they don't have the right politics (or maybe they're dismissed as "white" rather than "POC")?  [/quote]

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I wonder how these people would feel if I decided to teach a class on Mishima.[/quote]

Let’s see from an modern identity politics framework we have:

Pros:
Not white
Queer undertones
Dislike of American foreign policy 
Dislike of American materialism 
Attempted violent overthrow of the government

Cons:
Male
Asian, aka white-adjacent 
Military veteran
Hated by leftists 
Reactionary politics
Fascist
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