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Alexandre Labruffe

Chroniques d’une station-service

Presented by:Melanie Schneider

Capitalism

Technology

Climate Crisis

21st century

Benjamin Zephaniah

Refugee Boy

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Migrations

Racism

Pan-Africanism

Rastafari

Political Asylum

Black Identity

Goran Vojnović

Jugoslavija, moja dežela

Yugoslavia, My Homeland

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Identity

Wars

Collective Memory

Language

Yugoslavia

Liliana Corobca

Caiet de cenzor

The Censor’s Notebook

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Central and Eastern Europe

Communism

Cold War

Anti-communism

Censorship

Liviu Rebreanu

Răscoala

The Uprising

Presented by:Alina Bako

Class

Uprising

Parties

Herta Müller

Atemschaukel

The Hunger Angel

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Internment

Prison Fiction

Collective Memory

Gulag

Zofia Nałkowska

Romans Teresy Hennert

The Romance of Teresa Hennert

Presented by:Dawid Borucki

Feminism

Military

Marxism

Interwar period

Romance

Amanda Michalopoulou

Η γυναίκα του Θεού (I gynaika tou Theou)

God's Wife

Presented by:Niki Sioki

Identity

Gender

Feminism

Female Body

Albert Camus

La Peste

The Plague

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Second World War

Nazism

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Epidemic

Max Winter

Matters II

Presented by:Anna Zsellér

Precariousness

Precariat

Working poor

Globalization

Tadeusz Konwicki

Mała apokalipsa

The Minor Apocalypse

Presented by:Zofia Paetz

Dissidence

Anti-communism

Censorship

Hilary Mantel

The Wolf Hall Trilogy

Presented by:Ante Andabak

Materials

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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

Video

Coloniality, race, and Europeanness: Britain’s borders after Brexit

By: Aleksandra Lewicki

Article

Reparative Democracy: Testing the Borders of the Political. Interview with Wendy Brown

Reading Group Resources

Questions for Reading Groups

By: Sarah Colvin, Tara Talwar Windsor

Article

Rethinking the politics of form: The strange case of the political novel

By: Zrinka Božić

Audio

Podcast: Anti-fascist Literature

By: Ivana Perica

Topics

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Counterculture

Human Rights

20th century

Violence

Allied Bombings

Marxism