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Herta Müller

Atemschaukel

The Hunger Angel

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Internment

Prison Fiction

Collective Memory

Gulag

Rudolf Sloboda

Rozum

Reason

Presented by:Olha Norba

Prague Spring 1968

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Existentialism

Cultural Politics

NoViolet Bulawayo

Glory

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Authoritarianism

Uprising

Anti-fascist resistance

Collective Memory

Kim Mehmeti

Shpërngulja e të vdekurve

Exodus of the Dead

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Identity

Gender

Migrations

Ivo Brešan

Ispovijedi nekarakternog čovjeka

Confessions of an Amoral Man

Presented by:Andrea Milanko

Derviš Sušić

Hodža Strah

Imam of Fear

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Ottoman Empire

Nationalism

Colonialism

Anarchism

Norman Manea

Plicul negru

The Black Envelope

Presented by: Brînduşa Nicolaescu

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Fear

Liliana Corobca

Caiet de cenzor

The Censor’s Notebook

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Central and Eastern Europe

Communism

Cold War

Anti-communism

Censorship

Stanisław Brzozowski

Płomienie. Z papierów po Michale Kaniowskim

Flames. From the Papers of Michal Kaniowski

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Class

Terrorism

George Orwell

1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Public / private

Fear

Cold War

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

D’un château l’autre

Castle to Castle

Presented by:Ivan Silobrčić

Antisemitism

Second World War

Fascism

Zofia Nałkowska

Romans Teresy Hennert

The Romance of Teresa Hennert

Presented by:Dawid Borucki

Feminism

Military

Marxism

Interwar period

Psychological fiction

Romance

Materials

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Article

Nenad Ivić: Is Pierre Michon’s "The Eleven" a political novel?

By: Nenad Ivić

Article

Zvonimir Glavaš: “From Charlemagne to the Title of the King”: Political novel between estrangement and recognition

By: Zvonimir Glavaš

Video

Women's migration and travel writing - Interview with Charlotte Woodford

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Charlotte Woodford

Video

How to Read Political Novels? Lecture by Ivana Perica

By: Ivana Perica

Video

Conference: What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 1

By: Zrinka Božić, Mark Devenney, Zvonimir Glavaš, Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Working Paper

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

By: Brînduşa Nicolaescu, Natalya Bekhta

Topics

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Collective Memory

Sectarianism

Marxism

Careerism

Bildungsroman

Stalinism