> ... writers must be judged by their 'writing alone.
> How exactly this is to be done is not clear...
> To believe that good writing overrides bad politics to create Literature [like] viewing the writer as a precocious child with a knack. Both beliefs want to keep literature and politics safely apart...

https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1983&context=kunapipi

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