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NoViolet Bulawayo

Glory

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Authoritarianism

Uprising

Anti-fascist resistance

Collective Memory

Belén Gopegui

La conquista del aire

Conquering the Air

Presented by:Marta Gburzyńska

Class

Capitalism

Democracy

Pajtim Statovci

Kissani Jugoslavia

My Cat Yugoslavia

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Exile

Identity

Yugoslavia

George Orwell

1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Public / private

Fear

Cold War

Imre Kertész

Sorstalanság

Fatelessness

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Antisemitism

Second World War

Nazism

Holocaust

Vjekoslav Kaleb

Divota Prašine

Glorious Dust

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Yugoslavia

Communism

Partisans

Ilmari Kianto

Punainen viiva

The Red Line

Presented by:Eric Bergman

László Krasznahorkai

Herscht 07769

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Alexandre Labruffe

Chroniques d’une station-service

Presented by:Melanie Schneider

Capitalism

Technology

Climate Crisis

21st century

Daša Drndić

Canzone di guerra: nove davorije

Canzone di guerra

Presented by:Mirela Dakić

Gender

Migrations

Totalitarianism

Second World War

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Yugoslavia

Tvrtko Kulenović

Kasino

Casino

Presented by:Zvonimir Glavaš

Arthur Koestler

Darkness at Noon

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Bolsheviks

Stalinism

Fascism

Anti-communism

Show trials

Organised action

Individualism

Materials

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Conference Collection

Conference collection: What is the Political Novel? Defining the Genre

Verónica Paula Gómez: Beyond the Idea of Nation: The Political Domicile of Digital Literature in the Interzone

Video

Conference: What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 2

By: Polina Mackay, Marina Protrka Štimec, Mirela Dakić, Magda Potok, Vedrana Veličković, Rahul Putty

Video

Workshop: Political Novel in Historiographical and Sociological Perspective - Structures and Analogies (part 1)

By: Zrinka Božić, Nenad Ivić, Zvonimir Glavaš, Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, Tomislav Brlek, Karlo Držaić, Milica Resanović

Working Paper

Mónika Dánél: “Multilingual Minority: Poetical Decomposition of the Embodied Dictatorial Legacy.” & Philipp Wegmann: “Entrapment and Resistance. Language and Power in Andrea Tompa’s 'The Hangman’s House'. Response to Mónika Dánél.”

By: Mónika Dánél, Philipp Wegmann

Video

Political Novel through Migrant Info Point's Eyes – Interview with Alicja Skrzypczak and Marta Kowalczyk

By: Marta Kowalczyk, Alicja Skrzypczak

Topics

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Censorship

Meat industry

Political Dictatorship

French Revolution

anti-capitalism

Polyphonic Novel