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Zofia Nałkowska

Romans Teresy Hennert

The Romance of Teresa Hennert

Presented by:Dawid Borucki

Feminism

Military

Marxism

Interwar period

Psychological fiction

Romance

Kallia Papadaki

Δενδρίτες / Dendrítes

Dendrites

Presented by:Niki Sioki

Identity

Racism

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Crisis

Emigration

Michael Scharang

Charly Traktor

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Class

Public / private

Workerism

Autonomism

East vs. West

Parties

Province / Periphery

Carlo Levi

L'Orologio

The Watch

Presented by:Silvia Valentini

Revolution

Second World War

Reactionism

Italy

Theis Ørntoft

Jordisk

Earthly

Presented by:Troels Thorborg Andersen

Capitalism

Geopolitics

Climate Crisis

Consumerism

Dubravka Ugrešić

Ministarstvo boli

The Ministry of Pain

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Identity

Migrations

Yugoslavia

Dinçer Güçyeter

Unser Deutschlandmärchen

Our Fairy Tale of Germany

Presented by:Kyung-Ho Cha

Migrations

Guest Worker

Ivo Andrić

Travnička hronika. Konsulska vremena

Bosnian Chronicle

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Balkanism

Ottoman Empire

Diplomacy

Alexandre Labruffe

Chroniques d’une station-service

Presented by:Melanie Schneider

Capitalism

Technology

Climate Crisis

21st century

Kim Mehmeti

Shpërngulja e të vdekurve

Exodus of the Dead

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Identity

Gender

Migrations

Imre Kertész

Sorstalanság

Fatelessness

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Antisemitism

Second World War

Nazism

Holocaust

Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Revolution

Terrorism

Autocracy

Despotism

Reformism

Espionage

Cynicism

Political Espionage

Russian Revolution of 1905 (First Russian Revolution)

Materials

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Video

Conference: What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 3

By: Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, Paul Stewart, Błażej Warkocki, Shambhavi Prakash, Nenad Ivić, Ana Tomljenović, Andrea Milanko

Article

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

By: Zrinka Božić

Video

Aleksandra Lewicki: Coloniality, race, and Europeanness: Britain’s borders after Brexit

By: Aleksandra Lewicki

Video

Political Novel in Historiographical and Sociological Perspective: Structures and Analogies - part 2

By: Mirela Dakić, Goran Pavlić, Ante Andabak, Branimir Janković

Working Paper

Brînduşa Nicolaescu: “A Political Novel between the Periphery and the Center: Norman Manea’s 'Plicul negru' (1986) / 'The Black Envelope' (1995).” & Natalya Bekhta: “Response to Brînduşa Nicolaescu.”

By: Brînduşa Nicolaescu, Natalya Bekhta

Conference Collection

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

Topics

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Rastafari

Human Rights

Subjectification

Common Time

Vulnerability

Dystopic Europes