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Herta Müller

Atemschaukel

The Hunger Angel

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Internment

Prison Fiction

Collective Memory

Gulag

Milan Kundera

Kniha smíchu a zapomnění

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Marxism–Leninism

Public / private

Prague Spring 1968

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Everyday Life

Sofi Oksanen

Puhdistus

Purge

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Identity

Feminism

Female Body

Nationalism

Louis Aragon

La Semaine sainte

Holy Week

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Commitment

Fidelity

Antagonism

19th century

Military

Civil War

Cesare Pavese

La Luna e i Falò

The Moon and the Bonfires

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Exile

Identity

Class

Second World War

Carlo Levi

L'Orologio

The Watch

Presented by:Silvia Valentini

Revolution

Second World War

Reactionism

Italy

Janko Polić Kamov

Isušena kaljuža

The Dried-out Mire

Presented by:Andrea Milanko

Tvrtko Kulenović

Kasino

Casino

Presented by:Zvonimir Glavaš

Izabela Morska

Absolutna amnezja

Absolute Amnesia

Presented by:Izabela Sobczak

Gender

Feminism

Female Body

Neoliberalism

Political resistance

Communism

Patriarchy

Monique Wittig

Les Guérillères

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Feminism

Female Body

Language

collective

Abdulrazak Gurnah

The Last Gift

Presented by:Ante Andabak

Migrations

Colonialism

African Authors in Europe

NoViolet Bulawayo

Glory

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Authoritarianism

Uprising

Anti-fascist resistance

Collective Memory

Materials

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Article

Who’s afraid of the political novel? An introduction

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Working Paper

“A Political Novel between the Periphery and the Center: Norman Manea’s 'Plicul negru' (1986) / 'The Black Envelope' (1995)” & “Response”

By: Brînduşa Nicolaescu, Natalya Bekhta

Video

Workshop: Political Novel in Europe and Migration/Exile

By: Caponeu Team

Video

Conference: What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 3

By: Andrea Milanko, Ana Tomljenović, Paul Stewart, Shambhavi Prakash, Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, Błażej Warkocki, Nenad Ivić

Video

Exile as an opportunity - Interview with Zrinka Božić

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Zrinka Božić

Working Paper

Digital (Paratextual) Economies in And Other Stories and Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s "The Visitors" (2022): Between Autonomy and Subsumption

By: Joana Roqué Pesquer

Topics

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19th century

Allied Bombings

Processes of Disintegration

Authoritarianism

Post-foundational politics

Espionage