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Art Spiegelman

Maus: A Survivor’s Tale

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Autobiography

Nazism

Holocaust

Collective Memory

Andrzej Szczypiorski

Msza za miasto Arras

A Mass for Arras

Presented by:Gerard Ronge

Antisemitism

Censorship

Scapegoating

Moral Panic

Liliana Corobca

Caiet de cenzor

The Censor’s Notebook

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Central and Eastern Europe

Communism

Cold War

Anti-communism

Censorship

Raw Content

Presented by:Joanna Kellond

Gender

Motherhood

psychopolitics

Vladan Desnica

Zimsko ljetovanje

The Winter Summer Vacation

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Wars

Racism

Balkanism

Class Hegemony

Second World War

Yugoslavia

Ignazio Silone

Brot und Wein

Bread and Wine

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Wars

Political Dictatorship

Fascism

Socialism

Organised action

Patriarchy

Catholicism

Protestantism

Borislav Pekić

Besnilo: žanr roman

Rabies: genre novel

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Holocaust

20th century

Epidemic

Cold War

Tibor Déry

G. A. úr X-ben

Mr. G. A. in X

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Fakir Baykurt

Yüksek Fırınlar

Blast Furnaces

Presented by:Duncan Lien

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Second-Wave Feminism

Derviš Sušić

Hodža Strah

The Imam of Fear

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Ottoman Empire

Nationalism

Colonialism

Carmen Laforet

Nada

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Existentialism

Civil War

Bildungsroman

George Orwell

1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Public / private

Fear

Cold War

Materials

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Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 3)

By: Mark Devenney, Tanay Gandhi, Ricardo Camargo Brito

Video

What’s Novel about a Novel? Storytelling and Travelling Knowledge

By: Miriam Schwarz, Tara Talwar Windsor

Video

Workshop: Political Novel in Europe and Migration/Exile

By: Caponeu Team

Working Paper Collection

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

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

Article

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

By: Zrinka Božić

Storytelling

The Political Novel: A Palimpsest

By: Ivana Perica

Topics

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Censorship

Vulnerability

Existentialism

Subjectification

Protest

Identity