Thursday, February 1, 2007

Can Literature be Apolitical?

I believe that literature is always about politics. Politics are the processes in which groups make decisions. It always seems to be a power struggle--how can a group maintain power and how can they acquire more. Power can be made manifest through many different ways. Of course, most consider freedoms that are guaranteed in the Constitution and its subseqent amendments. Perhaps we must also consider how large a relationship power and money have. Even within a nation that pledges that all individuals are created equal, we see that might be true in theory, but in practice many circumstances create advantages and disadvantages. Education and sex are also ways that power can be exchanged between different groups. In a nutshell, since the literature I have read (and I really haven't read that much) seems to deal with power and relationships individuals have with one another.

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