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Abdulrazak Gurnah

The Last Gift

Presented by:Ante Andabak

Migrations

Colonialism

African Authors in Europe

Deniz Ohde

Streulicht

Sky Glow

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Migrations

Precariousness

Racism

Class

Louis Aragon

La Semaine sainte

Holy Week

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Commitment

Fidelity

Antagonism

19th century

Military

Civil War

Serhiy Zhadan

Ворошиловград (Voroshylovhrad)

Voroshilovgrad

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Imre Kertész

Sorstalanság

Fatelessness

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Antisemitism

Second World War

Nazism

Holocaust

Annie Ernaux

Les Années 

The Years

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Sexual Revolution

Petty-bourgeoisie

France

Janko Polić Kamov

Isušena kaljuža

The Dried-out Mire

Presented by:Andrea Milanko

Ádám Bodor

Sinistra körzet

The Sinistre Zone

Presented by:Boglárka Kodácsi

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Political Dictatorship

Socialism

Vladan Desnica

Zimsko ljetovanje

The Winter Summer Vacation

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Wars

Racism

Balkanism

Class Hegemony

Second World War

Yugoslavia

Il’ia Il’f, Evgenii Petrov

Двенадцать стульев/ Dvenadtsat' stul'yev & Золотой телёнок/ Zolotoy telyonok

The Twelve Chairs & The Golden Calf

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Fakir Baykurt

Yüksek Fırınlar

Blast Furnaces

Presented by:Duncan Lien

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Second-Wave Feminism

Alain van Crugten

La dictature des ignares

The Dictatorship of the Ignoramuses

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Authoritarianism

Students’ movement

History

East vs. West

Materials

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Reading Group Resources

How to Start a Reading Group

By: Sarah Colvin, Tara Talwar Windsor

Video

Exile as an opportunity - Interview with Zrinka Božić

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Zrinka Božić

Working Paper

Mónika Dánél: “Multilingual Minority: Poetical Decomposition of the Embodied Dictatorial Legacy.” & Philipp Wegmann: “Entrapment and Resistance. Language and Power in Andrea Tompa’s 'The Hangman’s House'. Response to Mónika Dánél.”

By: Mónika Dánél, Philipp Wegmann

Working Paper

Kyung-Ho Cha, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub: “European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel.”

By: Kyung-Ho Cha, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub

Article

Zvonimir Glavaš: “From Charlemagne to the Title of the King”: Political novel between estrangement and recognition

By: Zvonimir Glavaš

Video

Thinking the Political Workshop - part 3

By: Mark Devenney, Tanay Gandhi, Ricardo Camargo Brito

Topics

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Second World War

Feminist reading

Autonomism

Refugees

19th century

Parties