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Abstract
This dissertation aims to investigate the features of conspiracy theory in three political novels: Don DeLillo’s MaoII, L.T. Ryan’s Noble Beginnings, and James Patterson’s The President is Missing. The dissertation highlights the effects of the political conflicts, conspiracy theory, and terrorism in the selected novels, which reflect and document important contemporary political issues and their impact on public opinion and political consciousness, along with the structure and the language of the American political novel. The dissertation uses the conspiracy theory as a foundation to trace the impact of the political issues and their representations in the three novels. Writing politics in a narrative form reshapes the main elements of the traditional novel. To narrate politics; the plot usually lacks a beginning and a conclusion, as the novelist is more concerned with the political facts and narrating history which changes the character roles, structure, style, and language. The political issues discussed in the three novels have a real background of real political conflicts even if they were presented in a symbolic cover. The characters of political novels fall into main stereotypes: politician, terrorist, and mass representative. Political fiction in general and conspiracy theory narrations in particular are one of the governments’ soft powers. Modern technology and internet also changed the traditional concept of war and terrorism, and created the fourth generation war that is considered more advanced and fiercer than the traditional wars.