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Sharon Dodua Otoo

Adas Raum

Ada’s Room

Presented by:Kyung-Ho Cha

Colonialism

An Gorta Mór

Slavery

Great Famine (Ireland)

Holocaust

Dezső Kosztolányi

Édes Anna

Anna Édes

Presented by:Gábor Tamás Molnár

Class

Domestic Servitude

Right-Wing Restoration

Hungarian Commune of 1919

Hans Keilson

Der Tod des Widersachers

The Death of the Adversary

Presented by:Heinrich Detering

Exile

Second World War

Nazism

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Ignazio Silone

Fontamara

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Political Corruption

Italy

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Igor Štiks

Elijahova stolica

The Judgment of Richard Richter

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Identity

Migrations

Second World War

Nationalism

Yugoslavia

Pajtim Statovci

Kissani Jugoslavia

My Cat Yugoslavia

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Exile

Identity

Yugoslavia

Serhiy Zhadan

Ворошиловград (Voroshylovhrad)

Voroshilovgrad

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Georgi Gospodinov

Времеубежище (Vremeubezhishte)

Time Shelter

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Nostalgia

Socialism

Liberalism

Collective Memory

Zofia Nałkowska

Romans Teresy Hennert

The Romance of Teresa Hennert

Presented by:Dawid Borucki

Feminism

Military

Marxism

Interwar period

Psychological fiction

Romance

Liliana Corobca

Caiet de cenzor

The Censor’s Notebook

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Central and Eastern Europe

Communism

Cold War

Anti-communism

Censorship

Amélie Nothomb

Le Sabotage Amoureux

Loving sabotage

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

Diplomacy

Communism

Cold War

People's Republic of China

NoViolet Bulawayo

Glory

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Authoritarianism

Uprising

Anti-fascist resistance

Collective Memory

Materials

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Video

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

By: Marta Kowalczyk, Alicja Skrzypczak

Article

Tomasz Mizerkiewicz: Perceptions, cartographies, and ‘cartographies of time’ in the political novel

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Article

Ivana Perica and Aurore Peyroles: Who’s afraid of the political novel? An introduction

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Video

Thinking the Political Workshop - part 2

By: Clare Woodford, Allan Hansen

Working Paper

Alexandra Irimia: “Bureaucracies of Memory. Institutionalized History in Four Contemporary European Novels.” & Stephen Shapiro: “Response to Alexandra Irimia.”

By: Alexandra Irimia, Stephen Shapiro

Video

Migration in the Age of Anthropocene - Interview with Mark Devenney

By: Dawid Borucki, Mark Devenney

Topics

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Slavery

Morlachism

Individualism

Human Rights

Marxism–Leninism

Surveillance