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Miloš Crnjanski

Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću

The Journal of Čarnojević

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Class

First World War

Väinö Linna

Tuntematon sotilas

The Unknown Soldier

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Class

Cynicism

Second World War

Military

Nationalism

Collective Memory

Carmen Laforet

Nada

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Existentialism

Civil War

Bildungsroman

Vjekoslav Kaleb

Divota Prašine

Glorious Dust

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Yugoslavia

Communism

Partisans

Imre Kertész

Sorstalanság

Fatelessness

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Antisemitism

Second World War

Nazism

Holocaust

Sofi Oksanen

Puhdistus

Purge

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Identity

Feminism

Female Body

Nationalism

Georges Perec

W ou le souvenir d’enfance

W, or the Memory of Childhood

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Autobiography

Authoritarianism

Second World War

Nazism

Dystopian novel

Goran Vojnović

Jugoslavija, moja dežela

Yugoslavia, My Homeland

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Identity

Wars

Collective Memory

Language

Yugoslavia

Herta Müller

Atemschaukel

The Hunger Angel

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Internment

Prison Fiction

Collective Memory

Gulag

Annie Ernaux

Les Années 

The Years

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Sexual Revolution

Petty-bourgeoisie

France

Mathias Énard

Zone

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Wars

Espionage

Civil War

Benjamin Zephaniah

Refugee Boy

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Migrations

Racism

Pan-Africanism

Rastafari

Political Asylum

Black Identity

Materials

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Article

Competitive Words: Identity Counts in Large Amounts

By: Ivana Perica

Response to Verónica Paula Gómez

By: Liam Connell

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

Puo-an Francisca Wu Fu: Digital Platforms and the Geopolitics of English in Mithu Sanyal’s Novel "Identitti"

Working Paper Collection

European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel (Caponeu Working Papers)

By: Kyung-Ho Cha, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub

Article

From Poland with love: Politics of queerness in the time of neoliberal post-socialism (the case of Michał Witkowski)

By: Błażej Warkocki

Topics

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(Anti-)unionism

Guest Worker

French Revolution

Right-Wing Restoration

Northern Ireland

Banishment