So is every literary work political? I can’t go that far. Some of my more political colleagues may tell you yes, that every work is either part of the social problem or part of the solution (they’ll give it to you with rather more subtlety than that, but that’s the gist). I do think, though, that most works must engage with their own specific period in ways that can be called political.
How can you tell if a work is political? I think the author answers this question by stating certain conditions need to be met. What if those conditions are met unintentionally? For example, the author criticises a social construct without meaning to be political but the readers interpret the literary work to be political anyway. How do we avoid doing that?
