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Malte Tellerup

Hedeselskabet

The Heathland Society

Presented by:Troels Thorborg Andersen

Feminism

Consumerism

Utopianism

Eco-criticism

Counterculture

Alberts Bels

Būris

The Cage

Presented by:Daria Banasiewicz

Totalitarianism

Existentialism

Surveillance

Dissidence

Suzanne Lacascade

Claire-Solange, âme Africaine

Presented by:Charlotte Woodford

Feminism

Négritude

Herta Müller

Atemschaukel

The Hunger Angel

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Internment

Prison Fiction

Collective Memory

Gulag

Orhan Pamuk

Kar

Snow

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Female Body

East vs. West

Islam

Language

Dimitri Verhulst

The Misfortunates

De helaasheid der dingen

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Feminism

Working poor

Patriarchy

Family

Tvrtko Kulenović

Kasino

Casino

Presented by:Zvonimir Glavaš

Vladimir Nabokov

Дар (Dar)

The Gift

Presented by:Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis

Exile

Bolsheviks

Cossacks

Revolution

Vjekoslav Kaleb

Divota Prašine

Glorious Dust

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Yugoslavia

Communism

Partisans

Sofi Oksanen

Puhdistus

Purge

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Identity

Feminism

Female Body

Nationalism

Ádám Bodor

Sinistra körzet

The Sinistre Zone

Presented by:Boglárka Kodácsi

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Political Dictatorship

Socialism

Elvira Navarro

La trabajadora

A Working Woman

Presented by:Magda Potok

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Neoliberalism

Precariat

Materials

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Video

Workshop: Political Novel in Europe and Migration/Exile

By: Caponeu Team

Reading Group Resources

How to Start a Reading Group

By: Sarah Colvin, Tara Talwar Windsor

Video

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

By: Natasha Soobramanien, Luke Williams, Olivia Rutazibwa

Beyond Geopolitical Imagery: Vulnerable Bodies in Mohsin Hamid’s "Exit West" (2017)

By: Lisa Katharina Schmitz

Writing and Unmaking the Geopolitical in "Un captif amoureux"

By: Louis Aubry

Article

“Perché i xe bestie?!” Politics, race and exclusion in Vladan Desnica’s The Winter Summer Vacation

By: Marina Protrka Štimec

Topics

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Feminist reading

Existentialism

Anti-fascist resistance

Province / Periphery

Sex Trafficking

Espionage