Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state interferes in literature, literature has the right to interfere in the affairs of state.
Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.
I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.
So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas.
All literature is political.
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.