Ralph Ellison:
"...the interests of art and democracy converge...and while fiction is but a form of symbolic action, a mere game of "as if", therein lies its true function and its potential for effecting change. For at its most serious, just as is true of politics at its best, it is a thrust toward a human ideal. And it approaches that ideal by a subtle process of negating the world of things as given in favor of a complex of man-made positives"
(p. xx, Introduction to _Invisible Man_)
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