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Dualla Misipo

Der Junge aus Duala. Ein Regierungsschüler erzählt…

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

Presented by:Sandra Folie

Colonialism

Postcolonialism

Racism

African Authors in Europe

Afropea

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

Carmen Laforet

Nada

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Existentialism

Civil War

Bildungsroman

Ali Smith

Summer

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Migrations

Second World War

COVID Pandemic

Refugees

Antisemitism

Art

Internment

Political Discourse

United Kingdom

Art Spiegelman

Maus: A Survivor’s Tale

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Holocaust

Collective Memory

Autobiography

Nazism

Jospeh Ponthus

À la ligne: Feuillets d'usine

On the Line: Notes from a Factory

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Precariousness

Capitalism

Precariat

Work

21st century

Marta Sanz

Clavícula

Clavicle

Presented by:Magda Potok

Gender

Age

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Vulnerability

Precariousness

Female Body

Monique Wittig

Les Guérillères

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Feminism

Female Body

Language

collective

Danilo Kiš

Peščanik

Hourglass

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Second World War

Holocaust

Andrzej Szczypiorski

Msza za miasto Arras

A Mass for Arras

Presented by:Gerard Ronge

Antisemitism

Censorship

Scapegoating

Moral Panic

Péter Esterházy

Kis Magyar Pornográfia

A Little Hungarian Pornography

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Javier Cercas

Soldados de Salamina

Soldiers of Salamis

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Fascism

20th century

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Materials

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Article

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

By: Zrinka Božić

Video

Workshop: Political Novel in Historiographical and Sociological Perspective - Structures and Analogies (part 2)

By: Goran Pavlić, Branimir Janković, Mirela Dakić, Ante Andabak

Article

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

Audio

Podcast: Der politische Roman

By: Ivana Perica

Video

Roundtable: Literature in Times of Crisis: What Can the Novel Do?

By: Ivana Perica, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Heike Geißler, Alhierd Bacharevič, Maryam Aras

Video

Workshop: Political Novel in Europe and Migration/Exile

By: Caponeu Team

Topics

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Cybernetics

Wars

Alternative Europes

Fiction

Gender

Black Identity