I think that the idea that there's such a thing as a national literature that's somehow uniquely expressive of a national soul or culture or mentality is probably also something that nobody really believes in anymore.
Getting faculties to come to a consensus about something that they've never really thought about or had to worry about in their careers before can be a rather slow process and a long process, it certainly was the case at Harvard, and it's the case with most of the general education curricula that I know of, it takes four or five years just to get everybody on board with one idea.
One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of what you said.
You want diversity in any intellectual organization. I mean, that's how good ideas arise.
There are limits, after all, to the idea of limits.