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Irene Solà

Canto jo i la muntanya balla

When I sing, mountains dance

Presented by:Andrea Gastón Codony

History

Collective Memory

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Dezső Kosztolányi

Édes Anna

Anna Édes

Presented by:Gábor Tamás Molnár

Class

Domestic Servitude

Right-Wing Restoration

Hungarian Commune of 1919

Amélie Nothomb

Le Sabotage Amoureux

Loving sabotage

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

Diplomacy

Communism

Cold War

People's Republic of China

Nikos Davvetas

Ωστικό κύμα (Ostiko kyma)

Blast wave

Presented by:Niki Sioki

Violence

Racism

Terrorism

East vs. West

Islam

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Presented by:Elijah Butcher

Authoritarianism

Individualism

Dystopian novel

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

Thomas Gunzig

Kuru

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

Capitalism

Organised action

Individualism

Moral Panic

Nikolai Ostrovsky

Как закалялась сталь (Kak zakalyalas stal)

How the Steel Was Tempered

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Marxism–Leninism

Bolsheviks

Revolution

Stalinism

Civil War

Proletariat

Socialism

Franz Kafka

Der Verschollene

Amerika: The Missing Person

Presented by:Ante Andabak

Migrations

Anti-capitalism

Juan Goytisolo

Señas de identidad

Marks of Identity

Presented by:Magda Potok

Authoritarianism

Centres and Peripheries

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Isabella Hammad

Enter Ghost

Presented by:Elijah Butcher

Identity

Revolution

Islam

Cultural Politics

Palestine

Dinçer Güçyeter

Unser Deutschlandmärchen

Our Fairy Tale of Germany

Presented by:Kyung-Ho Cha

Migrations

Guest Worker

Materials

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Puo-an Francisca Wu Fu: Digital Platforms and the Geopolitics of English in Mithu Sanyal’s Novel "Identitti"

Working Paper Collection

The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era (Caponeu Working Papers)

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Conference Collection

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

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Johanna-Charlotte Horst, Kyung-Ho Cha

Article

Rethinking the politics of form: The strange case of the political novel

By: Zrinka Božić

Mike Phillips’ "A Shadow of Myself": Reading a post-Cold War Thriller through an Afropean Lens

By: Fanny Wehner

Working Paper

The Power of the Weak. Imperialism and Resistance in Anna Seghers’ "Der Führer"

By: Max Roehl

Topics

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Subsistence

Cold War

Image

Imperialism

Espionage

Cybernetics