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Ivo Brešan

Ništa Sveto

Nothing Sacred

Presented by:Andrea Milanko

Yugoslavia

August Cesarec

Careva kraljevina

Emperor’s Kingdom

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

20th century

Art Spiegelman

Maus: A Survivor’s Tale

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Autobiography

Nazism

Holocaust

Collective Memory

Mathias Énard

Zone

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Wars

Espionage

Civil War

Dubravka Ugrešić

Ministarstvo boli

The Ministry of Pain

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Identity

Migrations

Yugoslavia

Natasha Brown

Assembly

Presented by:Polina Mackay

Cancer

Racism

United Kingdom

Intersectional Politics

Karin Struck

Klassenliebe

Class Love

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Public / private

Second-Wave Feminism

Annie Ernaux

Les Années 

The Years

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Sexual Revolution

Petty-bourgeoisie

France

Dualla Misipo

Der Junge aus Duala. Ein Regierungsschüler erzählt…

The Boy from Douala. A Government School Student Tells his Story...

Presented by:Sandra Folie

Racism

Colonialism

Postcolonialism

African Authors in Europe

Afropea

Alain van Crugten

La dictature des ignares

The Dictatorship of the Ignoramuses

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Authoritarianism

Students’ movement

History

East vs. West

Monique Wittig

Les Guérillères

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Feminism

Female Body

Language

collective

Malte Tellerup

Hedeselskabet

The Heathland Society

Presented by:Troels Thorborg Andersen

Feminism

Consumerism

Utopianism

Eco-criticism

Counterculture

Materials

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Audio

Podcast: Anti-fascist Literature

By: Ivana Perica

Video

How to Read Political Novels? Online lecture

By: Ivana Perica

Article

Who’s afraid of the political novel? An introduction

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Book

The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920–2020

By: Ivana Perica, Benjamin Kohlmann

Video

Philosopher/Writer Workshop - Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams in discussion with Olivia Rutazibwa

By: Natasha Soobramanien, Luke Williams, Olivia Rutazibwa

Article

What is a novel in the political novel? The perspectives of contemporary feminist theory

By: Mirela Dakić

Topics

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Critical phallacy

Autobiography

Common Time

Cynicism

sexual politics

Healthcare workers