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Imre Kertész

Sorstalanság

Fatelessness

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Antisemitism

Second World War

Nazism

Holocaust

Deniz Ohde

Streulicht

Sky Glow

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Migrations

Precariousness

Racism

Class

Vjekoslav Kaleb

Divota Prašine

Glorious Dust

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Yugoslavia

Communism

Partisans

Ivo Brešan

Ništa Sveto

Nothing Sacred

Presented by:Andrea Milanko

Yugoslavia

Marta Sanz

Clavícula

Clavicle

Presented by:Magda Potok

Gender

Age

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Vulnerability

Precariousness

Female Body

Dinçer Güçyeter

Unser Deutschlandmärchen

Our Fairy Tale of Germany

Presented by:Kyung-Ho Cha

Migrations

Guest Worker

Danilo Kiš

Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča

A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Marxism–Leninism

Bolsheviks

Revolution

History

Internment

Second World War

Stalinism

Prison Fiction

Civil War

Gulag

Hans Keilson

Der Tod des Widersachers

The Death of the Adversary

Presented by:Heinrich Detering

Exile

Second World War

Nazism

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Liviu Rebreanu

Răscoala

The Uprising

Presented by:Alina Bako

Class

Uprising

Parties

Christa Wolf

Der geteilte Himmel

They Divided the Sky

Presented by:Katie Unwin

Berlin

Cold War

Individualism

Antje Rávik Strubel

Blaue Frau

Blue Woman

Presented by:Alrik Daldrup

Gender

Centres and Peripheries

East vs. West

Ignazio Silone

Fontamara

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Political Corruption

Italy

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Materials

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Working Paper Collection

European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel (Caponeu Working Papers)

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

Working Paper

Impotent Forms: "Crabwalk" and the Political Novel

By: Sophie Salvo

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

Book

Politics, Literature and Tertium Datur: Socialist Central Europe, 1928–1968

By: Ivana Perica

Audio

Podcast: Der politische Roman

By: Ivana Perica

Special collection

Thinking the Political: Theory, Literature, Practice

By: Craig Jordan-Baker, Joanna Kellond

Topics

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Autonomism

Exile

People's Republic of China

Sexual Revolution

Critical Digital Humanities

Marxism