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	How to Write Political Fiction - WikiHow
		Political fiction is timely literature that seeks to change some facet of society or that persuasively espouses a particular political viewpoint.
		Political fiction can truly be powerful: stories have time and again served as a catalyst, a call to action, to inspire people to change their world.
		Political fiction will usually offend at least some people, and if those people are obviously characters in your book, they may bring lawsuits against you.
	www.wikihow.com /Write-Political-Fiction (796 words)

	Political Fantasy - Definition
		But Political Fantasy, like Political Fiction of all types, is unique in the possible impact it can have on the world, for it touches the very force behind society, and thus can be a means of political change as well.
		The difference between "Fiction" and "Non-fiction" is that the former is based on something that did not happen or has not happened, and the latter is consequently based on something that has happened or is happening.
		Political Fantasy, then, is a subgenre of Fantasy, differentiated from Political Science Fiction by its being a completely different world rather than a speculation on this world.
	members.tripod.com /Snyder_AMDG/Political1.html (1751 words)

	Imaginative Literature and Social Change
		In its own way, fiction can accomplish something similar to what Noam Chomsky and many other progressive workers try to accomplish through nonfiction: the creation of works that clarify and better the world socially, politically, culturally....
		Fiction can debunk harmful propaganda and taboos; it can help energize, motivate, inspire and all the while maintain a vital literary quality by staying focused in part on fiction's core strengths, the plumbing of the depths of the human condition through character -- psychology, personality, motivation, mindset....
		Such fiction is both intensely personal and social in its exploration of the nature of relations between the private and the public in ways that can enrich and enable our individual lives and society.
	www.socialit.org (879 words)

	Progressive Political Fiction
		The notion of enlightening and moving and aesthetically accomplished political fiction of various sorts is that which cannot be thought.
		It seems to me that politically progressive art (and criticism) is one of the most socially useful and socially healthy realms of art (and criticism), and one of the most lively and otherwise appealing realms, as is manifest in quite diverse ways: morally, psychologically, politically, aesthetically, and so on.
		The implication here is that writers who use a substantial amount of political information or a clear and pointed view throughout their fiction, or who dare to make explicit politics a strong focus, are propagandists, and as such lessen the quality of their work.
	www.politicalnovel.org /progressive-political-fiction.html (5069 words)

	Political Fantasy-Defense
		Political Fiction has made its debut and been accepted by those readers longing for more than mere hackneyed "frou-frou." And having even conquered Political Science Fiction, having introduced it to a world normally skeptical of all that is fantastic, what use or precedent is there for Political Fantasy?
		But in order to achieve this either in the arts, or in literature, or in fiction, or in Political Fantasy, the author must first be grounded in that which is true, good, just and beautiful-the author must be founded in God.
		Political Fantasy is the study of politics, that is the force-human or divine-that moves and shapes a society, in a fabricated world.
	members.tripod.com /Snyder_AMDG/Political3.html (1856 words)

	George McKay- Metapropaganda: Self-Reading Dystopian Fiction: Burdekin’s Swastika Night and Orwell’s Nineteen ...
		Fiction using documentary forms (for example, what Lorna Martens identifies as the "genuine document fiction" [191] of diary and retrospective self-writing) also questions any clear distinction between fiction and non-fiction.
		Of course, this coincidence of interpreting activity between intra- and extra-textual readers is not unique to the political fiction I look at here—it's also found, for instance, in the epistolary form, where letters are the focus of the reading action, both intra- and extra-textually.
		It's part of the auto-critical impulse of dystopia, in which distinctions between fantasy and realist text are constructed and undermined, in which procedures of political address are employed to expose the dangers of political address, in which extra-textual readers are positioned by a strategy of exploring the problems of textual positioning on intra-textual readers.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/64/mckay.htm (6053 words)

	Political Fiction - Northbrook Public Library
		This political satire speculates that the Gulf War was actually created by a Hollywood director at the request of a GOP chairman running President Bush’s reelection campaign.
		A nominee for the Supreme Court is drawn into the case of a teenage girl whose parents want to stop her from aborting a baby with a severe birth defect.
		A political consultant whose brother is running for Senate goes to work for the opposition.
	www.northbrook.info /lib_fiction_political.php (1150 words)

	The Genre of the Political Novel: A Select, Annotated, Polemical Bibliography
		The political novel can be emotional and exciting without seducing readers into actual political activity if we regard it as a kind of opera rather than as a form of activism.
		Siebers is refreshingly direct about the interrelations between politics and literature: "Politics demands that we risk taking a position, that we stand somewhere, that we decide, and that we accept as part of the political process the possibility that our positions, stances, and positions may go horribly wrong, nowhere, or miraculously right.
		Politics depends on a sort of belief that has been ruled inadmissible by New Critics and post-structuralists of various stripe, critics who have all avoided the defining risks of political activity.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /poldiscourse/jwbbibl.html (1287 words)

	"Why Americans can't write political fiction." by Christopher Lehmann
		In 1984, the political novel's most famous modern exemplar, Orwell reckoned with the most decisive forces loose in the modern world: not merely the rise of totalitarian political regimes, but also the triumph of a depersonalized mass culture, the humorless bureaucratized workplace, and the abolition of historical memory.
		With the most deadly political failure fresh in the nation's memory, Whitman, in 1871, issued his famous call for a distinctive, politically minded American literature in his essay “Democratic Vistas.” A new national literature, Whitman argued, was the only force adequate to heal a newly sutured American nation.
		As political animals, they're accustomed to honoring few clear distinctions between their messy, conflicted, adulterous, and boozy lives and their obligations to the public weal, and so they are not in the business of sacrificing one for the sake of the other.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2005/0510.lehmann.html (4164 words)

	A Political History of SF
		This turns out to be useful perspective because more of the history of SF than one might expect is intertwined with political questions, and SF had an important role in giving birth to at least one distinct political ideology that is alive and important today.
		As with that of the Futurians, the New Wave was both a stylistic revolt and a political one.
		The strong binding between hard SF and libertarian politics continues to be a fact of life in the field.
	www.catb.org /~esr/writings/sf-history.html (4463 words)

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		Amatory fiction has also been described as a “seduction narrative” (12), but its undertones were political.
		These women writing amatory fiction present “political allegoriesbut[t]hey attempt to articulate sexual and political party interest simultaneously, with reference both to the struggle for a specifically female authority in sexual and party political representation and to the more general struggle to resolve ethical and epistemological crises in the social order through narrative form” (16).
		Amatory fiction was a new phenomenon which began in the late 1600’s when Aphra Behn published a work of fiction that was both “sexually explicit and outspokenly partisan inpolitics” (Ballaster 1).
	www.geocities.com /i4inj/index.html (305 words)

	Fiction International's Political Correctness Issue (#27)
		The electoral failings of democratic liberalism, the poor success rate of the 1960s social action programs, and even the collapse of Marxist politics have turned radical politics increasingly toward identity politics or what is called the "politics of difference." Increasingly, multiculturalism and feminism became the main political agenda of university politics.
		The postmodern analysis that sees all knowledge as political and shaped by competing forms of discourse or language provided an intellectual framework in which the politics of identity developed.
		Fiction, counter-fiction, various sorts of discourse, visual interventions, and a forum which addresses the political correctness debate form multiple angles.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~fictintl/pc.html (721 words)

	The Political Novel (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Only those who belong to the ruling class, in other words, only those who had already won the battle and acquired the spoils, could afford to be above the battle.
		Fiction which was propagandistic, that is, fiction which continued to participate in the battle, it naturally cultivated a distaste for, and eschewed.
		Fiction which was above the battle, that is fiction which concerned only the so-called absolutes and eternals, with the ultimate emotions and the perennial tragedies, but which offered no solutions, no panaceas -- it was such fiction that won its adoration.
	www.politicalnovel.org.cob-web.org:8888 (342 words)

	Women and Domestic Experience in Victorian Political Fiction — www.greenwood.com
		It revises generic understandings of political fiction and shows that domestic plots are integral to political plots.
		This is so because domestic fiction focuses on the cultivation of the liberal self in the household and the disclosure of that self in terms of its vision of the good.
		The volume concludes that domestic space is the foundation of liberal polity, and that an account of the household in which the liberal self is disclosed is at the heart of both Victorian political fiction and philosophy.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/GM1634.aspx (375 words)

	Books: Political fiction gets my vote
		Politics and fiction have never been a very popular duo in America.
		European, Asian, African and especially Latin American fiction writers rarely ignore the wider political context of their stories and characters.
		No problem figuring out where her sympathies lie: She interrupts her narrative with nonfiction nuggets about the history of nuclear arms, including the proposal by the current administration to produce "small" tactical battlefield warheads.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/08/21/Books/Political_fiction_get.shtml (827 words)

	Political ideas in science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The exploration of politics in science fiction is arguably older than the identification of the genre.
		In The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein presents a human society on the Moon as an ideal anarchy, populated by political exiles and held together by the need for cooperation to ensure mutual survival, coupled with the ease for revenge in the event of harm.
		It didn't share the political turmoil of its real world counterpart and the constitutional monarchy was portrayed by author as an ideal remedy for inherent problems of a society created brutalised people resorting to terror in their fight for freedom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_ideas_in_science_fiction (1974 words)

	Political Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Senator Charlie Martin confronts the two greatest challenges in his life: an unscrupulous political opponent and an unconventional woman who loves him but is appalled by his life's work.
		Realizing at the moment of his conviction for a crime he did not commit that someone is determined to see him dead and another to set him free, Benjamin Weaver works to expose a conspiracy with links to the coming election.
		Hiring a private investigator to learn if a political candidate's husband is having an affair, attorney Brady Coyne finds he is bound by attorney-client privilege from disclosing information when the investigator is murdered.
	www.lacrosselibrary.org /readers/politicalmysteries.htm (728 words)

	Political Science Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Political Science Fiction examines the close relationship between politics and science fiction and shows how much of the former is grounded in the latter.
		Sixteen science fiction writers and critics join forces to offer an anthology that explores a diversity of futuristic literature, from the novels of H. Wells to Star Trek: The Next Generation, and a spectrum of ideas, from the libertarianism of Robert A. Heinlein to the feminism of Ursula K. LeGuin and Sheri S. Tepper.
		Equally divided between essays that analyze science fiction texts as literature and essays that discuss them as models of political science theory and practice, the collection reveals the propensity of fiction writers to center their works on particular governmental structures.
	www.sc.edu /uscpress/1996/3113.html (371 words)

	dustbury.com: Political Science Fiction Archives
		Since both are political neophytes, I have to assume that their questionnaire responses were deemed unsatisfactory.
		Ecevit suffered substantial political fallout from the invasion, and he was replaced as Prime Minister in November by Sadi Irmak.
		Political wiseguy Dick Morris says he'll leave the country if Senator Clinton is elected President.
	www.dustbury.com /backlog/political_science_fiction (11284 words)

	CVCO - Overbooked: Political Fiction
		Abel returns to Louisiana politics with a mystery that pits the Old South against the new, as a racist crime drags up a murder that is 30-years-old, involving a few powerful men who have an interest in keeping it secret.
		Combining suspense and a hilarious inside view of American politics, Mackerel by Moonlight tells the story of a disgraced D.A. who gets bitten by the political bug, and, just as he is on the brink of election to the Senate, takes drastic action against those who would stand in his way.
		An epic chronicle of American political fortunes, Ward Just's 12th novel is his masterpiece, realized through the minds and pulses of men and women who strive to save the nation - or themselves.
	freenet.vcu.edu /education/literature/booklists/polfic.html (2359 words)

	Orson Scott Card on Fiction and Political Fabrications
		The rule in children’s fiction is that the hero should be two years older than your target audience.
		If I had been brought here as a science fiction writer, I would have kept those out of the discussion as much as possible.
		OSC: All I tell them is, I hate every word that Barbara Streisand has said about politics and I love her singing and I listen to her songs.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V124/N52/52osc.52n.html (1662 words)

	ZNet \|Culture \| Progressive Political Fiction
		Well, there go all the vital tales in which the politics explicitly support, infuse, or frame the main story, and in some focal ways are the storyÂ â“ primary phenomena from which related moments may reverberate.
		More evidence of the terrific viability of polemic and explicit political commentary and literatureÂ as art is the fact that great socio-political satire has virtually always existed, in diverse types of literature, often of high aesthetic caliber.
		In the case of the liberalâ or conservativeÂ âcritic, however, we have a political pamphlet which pretends to be something else.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=105&ItemID=9473 (4982 words)

	dustbury.com: Political Science Fiction Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dean Esmay reports that in the last half of the 20th century conservatism ceased to be the red-headed stepchild of American political thought — and then found itself at the dawn of the 21st to be the dominant strain.
		McConnell is acclaimed by legal scholars on both sides of the political fence; though distinctly conservative, he does not come across as an ideologue.
		It confirms his worldweary view of politics (which he acquired from his tutor at the age of eighteen): any nation is just as bad as every other nation, all political systems are equally stupid.
	www.dustbury.com /archives/cat_political_science_fiction.html (15789 words)

	POLITICAL SCIENCE
		She received her MA and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in Political Science and did her undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point where she received a BS degree, with a major in Political Science and a minor in French.
		She continues to serve on the executive board of the Evansville Initiative, a civic betterment group determined to foster progressive approaches to energy, and is a member of the Evansville Public Benefits Committee, which distributes funds for energy conservation.
		Her research interests center on the gendering of political institutions and on gender in campaigns.
	www.beloit.edu /~polisci/faculty.htm (1910 words)

	danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: Is American political fiction really so bad?
		Compromise, the core of the political process, is regarded not as an art but as a fl art.
		If I may be so bold as to suggest Tom Clancy as my political fiction author of choice (admittedly drawn from a pool of one.) While his stuff may focus on idealized politics, I find the detailed descriptions of political manuvering to be what I read him for.
		For political fiction try the novels of Charles McCary; especially Lucky Bastard (a satire on the Clintons), Shelly's Heart, The Tears of Autumn (the Kennedy Assassination) and The Old Boys.
	www.danieldrezner.com /archives/002399.html (2300 words)

	NPR : The Best in Political Fiction
		Morning Edition, May 10, 2004 · To prepare us for the long election season ahead, librarian Nancy Pearl has compiled a list of reading material for people who are interested in politics, but disgusted with today's political rhetoric.
		American Hero by Larry Beinhart: A dark romp through the underbelly of politics, American Hero was the basis for the film Wag the Dog.
		For some of the best novels of biographical political fiction: Grant by Max Byrd, Lincoln by Gore Vidal, Burr by Gore Vidal, and Washington, D.C. by Gore Vidal.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1890288 (439 words)

	New Political Fiction by William F. Buckley!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		And, along with the Warren Commission, which is probing the assassination of President Kennedy, we encounter a bizarre world of domestic political intrigue, involving Communist fellow travelers and extremists of all stripes.
		Conservatives in particular will be intrigued and entertained by this revealing look at the birth of their movement, by one who was both a keen observer and key participant.
		"The fiction is imaginative joiner work, the knitting together of a story in which many people on the political scene from 1958 to 1966 were involved, from all of which conversation the author heard what he took to be the tuning fork of modern political conservatism.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/826899/posts (1234 words)

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