Where are you, angry young persons?

4 years after the invasion in Iraq, I still haven't found authors who use the political climate as a background of their books.
This is especially strange given that there are so many vocal anti-globalization activists.

What are we likely to see in a couple of years? Hordes of young authors in the U.S. that say U.S. politics is crap and that they really like Castro, Chavez, Morales?

2 weeks later

Still no angry books. How about I'll write one? Here's the story, please add suitable amounts of sex, gender gaps, generation gaps etc.

There's a history student/anti-globalization/ant-war activist named Liza and her professor, Dr. Paul. Liza is interested in postmodern interpretations of historical narratives. Paul likes the idea but mainly because he does not understand it very well and finds it nice that Liza explains him the basics.

Paul is cynical and promotes the idea that in Iraq, chaos rules since not enough young men died during the initial conflict. Had more people died, the remaining ones simply would not have the urge to fight any more. Paul supports his opinion with figures of losses in previous conflicts. Liza is outraged.

Amidst political rallies, romance and music (maybe she plays the ukulele or something fashionable), Liza's studies are going quite well. She writes a paper about the Bush administration's eschatological discourse of the war in Iraq. The paper is accepted in a multidisciplinary workshop "Views of globalization and war". In the workshop, Liza meets two other stereotypes, James and Janice (let's make them a couple for simplicity). James is a muslim and Janice a socialist. Both of them criticize Liza's postmodermism on the basis that suffering and injustice really happen, they are not just discoursive constructions.

James and Janice disagree about almost everything, but think that the sectarian violence, terrorist attacks, and general chaos in Iraq is not only caused but tolerated and inflamed by the U.S. government. James think this is a way of waging a war against Islam by making the Sunni's and Shiates fight each other. Janice thinks this is how Iraq, under the supervision of the U.S., actually produces great amounts of oil and petrol (much more than the official figures), but since the country is unstable, the price stays high and the profits are secretly shared by the cronies of Iraq administration, oil industry, and U.S. companies.

This book idea is turning quite boring so let's leave it here. James and Janice might plan an anthrax attack at Capitol Hill. Liza might return from the workshop and explain the "instability by the U.S." idea to Paul who promptly steals it and publishes it in a paper. And so on.