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Hans Keilson

Der Tod des Widersachers

The Death of the Adversary

Presented by:Heinrich Detering

Exile

Second World War

Nazism

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Samuel Beckett

Molloy 

Molloy

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Violence

Marginalisation

Subjectification

Identity

Karin Struck

Klassenliebe

Class Love

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Public / private

Feminism

Second-Wave Feminism

Kim Mehmeti

Shpërngulja e të vdekurve

Exodus of the Dead

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Identity

Gender

Migrations

Jaan Kross

The Czar's Madman

Keisri hull

Presented by:Daria Banasiewicz

Authoritarianism

Revolution

Terrorism

Hubert Fichte

Detlevs Imitationen “Grünspan”

Detlev’s Imitations

Presented by:Shambhavi Prakash

Allied Bombings

Students’ movement

Second World War

Blitzkrieg

Sharon Dodua Otoo

Adas Raum

Ada’s Room

Presented by:Kyung-Ho Cha

Feminism

Colonialism

An Gorta Mór

Slavery

Great Famine (Ireland)

Holocaust

Vassilis Vassilikos

Ζ, φανταστικό ντοκυμανταίρ ενός εγκλήματος

Z

Presented by:Niki Sioki

Authoritarianism

Military

Civil War

Fascism

Benjamin Zephaniah

Refugee Boy

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Migrations

Racism

Pan-Africanism

Rastafari

Political Asylum

Black Identity

Institutional Racism

Pajtim Statovci

Kissani Jugoslavia

My Cat Yugoslavia

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Exile

Identity

Yugoslav Wars

Ismail Kadare

Nënpunësi i pallatit të ëndrrave

The Palace of Dreams

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Authoritarianism

Ottoman Empire

People's Socialist Republic of Albania

Political Dictatorship

Political Corruption

Annie Ernaux

Les Années 

The Years

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Feminism

Sexual Revolution

French Postwar Politics

Petty-bourgeoisie

Reading materials

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Video

Political Novel through Migrant Info Point's Eyes – Interview with Alicja Skrzypczak and Marta Kowalczyk

Working Paper Collection

Kyung-Ho Cha, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub (Eds.): European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel (Caponeu Working Papers)

Video

Workshop: Political Novel in Europe and Migration/Exile

Video

Thinking the Political Workshop - part 4

Article

CAPONEU - behind the scenes

Video

What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 2

Topics

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Blitzkrieg

Social Class and Family

Common Time

Revolution

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Fidelity