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Väinö Linna

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Under the North Star

Presented by:Eric Bergman

History

Civil War

Communism

Anti-communism

Louis Aragon

Les Communistes

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

History

Nazism

Fascism

Communism

Partisans

France

Abdulrazak Gurnah

The Last Gift

Presented by:Ante Andabak

Migrations

Colonialism

African Authors in Europe

Serhiy Zhadan

Ворошиловград (Voroshylovhrad)

Voroshilovgrad

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Borislav Pekić

Besnilo: žanr roman

Rabies: genre novel

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Malte Tellerup

Hedeselskabet

The Heathland Society

Presented by:Troels Thorborg Andersen

Feminism

Consumerism

Utopianism

Eco-criticism

Counterculture

Robert Menasse

Die Hauptstadt

The Capital

Presented by:Alexandra Irimia

Refugees

Political Corruption

European Transnational Integration

Nationalism

Holocaust

Dubravka Ugrešić

Ministarstvo boli

The Ministry of Pain

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Identity

Migrations

Yugoslavia

Michael Scharang

Charly Traktor

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Class

Public / private

Workerism

Autonomism

East vs. West

Parties

Province / Periphery

Alexandre Labruffe

Chroniques d’une station-service

Presented by:Melanie Schneider

Capitalism

Technology

Climate Crisis

21st century

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

Vassilis Vassilikos

Ζ, φανταστικό ντοκυμανταίρ ενός εγκλήματος (Z, phantastikó dokimantaír enós englímatos)

Z

Presented by:Niki Sioki

Authoritarianism

Military

Civil War

Fascism

Materials

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Audio

Podcast: Anti-fascist Literature

By: Ivana Perica

Reading Group Resources

How to Start a Reading Group

By: Sarah Colvin, Tara Talwar Windsor

Working Paper

Response to Anna Murashova

By: Isabell A. Meske

Video

Workshop: Literary Politics and Geopolitics

By: Zrinka Božić, Mark Devenney, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Charlotte Woodford, Nenad Ivić, Korbinian Lindel, Lisa Katharina Schmitz, Ekaterina Vassilieva, Fanny Wehner, Anna Björk Einarsdóttir, Max Roehl, Benjamin Kohlmann, Natalya Bekhta, Louis Aubry, Marina Sivak

Video

Exile as an opportunity - Interview with Zrinka Božić

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Zrinka Božić

Working Paper

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

By: Mónika Dánél, Philipp Wegmann

Topics

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Agency

Critical phallacy

Hungarian Commune of 1919

People's Socialist Republic of Albania

Rastafari

Twentieth century