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Art Spiegelman

Maus: A Survivor’s Tale

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Autobiography

Nazism

Holocaust

Collective Memory

Ali Smith

Summer

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Migrations

United Kingdom

Refugees

Art

Internment

COVID Pandemic

Antisemitism

Political Discourse

Second World War

Torborg Nedreaas

Av måneskinn gror det ingenting

Nothing Grows by Moonlight

Presented by:Øyvind Soldal Rasmussen

Feminism

Female Body

Patriarchy

Yevgeny Zamyatin

My

We

Presented by:Mirela Dakić

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Individualism

Dystopian novel

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

D’un château l’autre

Castle to Castle

Presented by:Ivan Silobrčić

Antisemitism

Second World War

Fascism

Norman Manea

Plicul negru

The Black Envelope

Presented by: Brînduşa Nicolaescu

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Fear

Jaan Kross

The Czar's Madman

Keisri hull

Presented by:Daria Banasiewicz

Authoritarianism

Revolution

Terrorism

Michel Houellebecq

Soumission

Submission

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Fear

Islam

Reactionism

Political Elections

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

20th century

Soviet Laughter

The NEP (New Economic Policy) Era

Madeleine Bourdouxhe

Sous le pont Mirabeau

Under the Bridge Mirabeau

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Wars

Second World War

Fascism

Motherhood

Ignazio Silone

Brot und Wein

Bread and Wine

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Wars

Political Dictatorship

Fascism

Socialism

Organised action

Patriarchy

Catholicism

Protestantism

Ignazio Silone

Fontamara

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Political Corruption

Italy

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Materials

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Video

Workshop: Political Novel in Historiographical and Sociological Perspective - Structures and Analogies (part 2)

By: Mirela Dakić, Goran Pavlić, Ante Andabak, Branimir Janković

Reading Group Resources

How to Start a Reading Group

By: Sarah Colvin, Tara Talwar Windsor

Video

Migration in the Age of Anthropocene - Interview with Mark Devenney

By: Dawid Borucki, Mark Devenney

Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 4)

By: Prathama Banerjee, German Primera

Conference Collection

Conference collection: What is the Political Novel? Defining the Genre

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Johanna-Charlotte Horst, Kyung-Ho Cha

Article

Who’s afraid of the political novel? An introduction

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Topics

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Intersectionality

Symbolic Turning Points

Banishment

Nakba

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Dialogism