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Malte Tellerup

Hedeselskabet

The Heathland Society

Presented by:Troels Thorborg Andersen

Feminism

Consumerism

eco-criticism

counter-culture

utopianism

Hilary Mantel

The Wolf Hall Trilogy

Presented by:Ante Andabak

Tadeusz Konwicki

Mała apokalipsa

The Minor Apocalypse

Presented by:Zofia Paetz

Dissidence

Anti-communism

Censorship

Natasha Brown

Assembly

Presented by:Polina Mackay

Cancer

Racism

United Kingdom

Intersectional Politics

Elvira Navarro

La trabajadora

A Working Woman

Presented by:Magda Potok

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Neoliberalism

Precariat

Deniz Ohde

Streulicht

Sky Glow

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Migrations

Precariousness

Racism

Class

Ali Smith

Summer

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Migrations

United Kingdom

Refugees

Art

Internment

COVID Pandemic

Antisemitism

Political Discourse

Second World War

Dezső Kosztolányi

Édes Anna

Anna Édes

Presented by:Gábor Tamás Molnár

Class

Domestic Servitude

Right-Wing Restoration

Hungarian Commune of 1919

Alberts Bels

Būris

The Cage

Presented by:Daria Banasiewicz

Totalitarianism

Existentialism

Surveillance

Dissidence

Herta Müller

Atemschaukel

The Hunger Angel

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Internment

Prison Fiction

Collective Memory

Gulag

Georgi Gospodinov

Времеубежище (Vremeubezhishte)

Time Shelter

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Nostalgia

Socialism

Liberalism

Collective Memory

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

D’un château l’autre

Castle to Castle

Presented by:Ivan Silobrčić

Antisemitism

Second World War

Fascism

Materials

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Video

Conference: What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 1

By: Zrinka Božić, Mark Devenney, Zvonimir Glavaš, Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Article

Marina Protrka Štimec: “Perché i xe bestie?!” Politics, race and exclusion in Vladan Desnica’s The Winter Summer Vacation

By: Marina Protrka Štimec

Working Paper

Charles Sabatos: “Reimagining Political Peripheries in Pišťanek’s and Boldizar’s Siberian Slovakia.” & Nina Weller: “Response to Charles Sabatos.”

By: Charles Sabatos, Nina Weller

Reading Group Resources

Questions for Reading Groups

By: Sarah Colvin, Tara Talwar Windsor

Video

How to Read Political Novels? Lecture by Ivana Perica

By: Ivana Perica

Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 1)

By: Vedrana Veličković, Oliver Marchart

Topics

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Dissidence

Reformism

Espionage

anti-capitalism

Honest Intelligentsia

Capitalism