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Juan Goytisolo

Señas de identidad

Marks of Identity

Presented by:Magda Potok

Authoritarianism

Centres and Peripheries

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Miroslav Krleža

Zastave

Flags

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Political Discourse

First World War

Nationalism

Dialogism

Yugoslavia

Communism

Hilary Mantel

The Wolf Hall Trilogy

Presented by:Ante Andabak

Vladimir Nabokov

Дар (Dar)

The Gift

Presented by:Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis

Exile

Bolsheviks

Cossacks

Revolution

Ali Smith

Summer

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Migrations

United Kingdom

Refugees

Art

Internment

COVID Pandemic

Antisemitism

Political Discourse

Second World War

Vjenceslav Novak

Majstor Adam

Master Adam

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Class

Nationalism

Socialism

Moral Panic

David Albahari

Gec i Majer

Götz and Meyer

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Antisemitism

Second World War

Nationalism

Holocaust

Arthur Koestler

Darkness at Noon

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Bolsheviks

Stalinism

Fascism

Anti-communism

Show trials

Organised action

Individualism

Dubravka Ugrešić

Ministarstvo boli

The Ministry of Pain

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Identity

Migrations

Yugoslavia

F. E. Sillanpää

Hurskas Kurjuus: Päättynyt Suomalainen Elämäkerta

Meek Heritage

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Ádám Bodor

Sinistra körzet

The Sinistre Zone

Presented by:Boglárka Kodácsi

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Political Dictatorship

Socialism

Maria Modrakowska

Anetka

Presented by:Anna Artwich

Feminism

Queer

Materials

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Article

Paul Stewart: Fundamental operations of the political in Beckett’s Molloy

By: Paul Stewart

Video

How to Read Political Novels? Lecture by Ivana Perica

By: Ivana Perica

Video

Rethinking the Political: Narrative, Protest and Fiction in the 21st Century

Reading Group Resources

How to Start a Reading Group

By: Sarah Colvin, Tara Talwar Windsor

Working Paper

Isabell A. Meske: Response to Anna Murashova’s contribution

Video

Thinking the Political Workshop - part 2

By: Clare Woodford, Allan Hansen

Topics

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Petty-bourgeoisie

Yugoslavia

Cultural Politics

Scapegoating

Mining

Critical phallacy