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Ignazio Silone

Fontamara

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Political Corruption

Italy

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Benjamin Zephaniah

Refugee Boy

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Migrations

Racism

Pan-Africanism

Rastafari

Political Asylum

Black Identity

Louis Aragon

Les Communistes

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

History

Nazism

Fascism

Communism

Partisans

France

Liviu Rebreanu

Răscoala

The Uprising

Presented by:Alina Bako

Class

Uprising

Parties

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

Andrzej Szczypiorski

Msza za miasto Arras

A Mass for Arras

Presented by:Gerard Ronge

Antisemitism

Censorship

Scapegoating

Moral Panic

David Albahari

Gec i Majer

Götz and Meyer

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Antisemitism

Second World War

Nationalism

Holocaust

Robert Menasse

Die Hauptstadt

The Capital

Presented by:Alexandra Irimia

Refugees

Political Corruption

European Transnational Integration

Nationalism

Holocaust

Ivo Andrić

Travnička hronika. Konsulska vremena

Bosnian Chronicle

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Balkanism

Ottoman Empire

Diplomacy

Amélie Nothomb

Le Sabotage Amoureux

Loving sabotage

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

Diplomacy

Communism

Cold War

People's Republic of China

Maria Modrakowska

Anetka

Presented by:Anna Artwich

Feminism

Queer

Juan Goytisolo

Señas de identidad

Marks of Identity

Presented by:Magda Potok

Authoritarianism

Centres and Peripheries

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Materials

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Article

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

By: Paul Stewart

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

Working Paper

Kyung-Ho Cha, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub: “European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel.”

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

Conference Collection

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

Video

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

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Charlotte Woodford

Elias Kreuzmair: Response to Sophie Salvo’s Contribution

Topics

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Gender

mushrooms

Diplomacy

Recognition

France

Cynicism