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Antje Rávik Strubel

Blaue Frau

Blue Woman

Presented by:Alrik Daldrup

Gender

Centres and Peripheries

East vs. West

Hilary Mantel

The Wolf Hall Trilogy

Presented by:Ante Andabak

Imre Kertész

Sorstalanság

Fatelessness

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Antisemitism

Second World War

Nazism

Holocaust

Derviš Sušić

Hodža Strah

Imam of Fear

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Ottoman Empire

Nationalism

Colonialism

Anarchism

Danilo Kiš

Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča

A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Marxism–Leninism

Bolsheviks

Revolution

History

Second World War

Stalinism

Civil War

Mathias Énard

Zone

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Wars

Espionage

Civil War

Kathrin Röggla

wir schlafen nicht

we never sleep

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Neoliberalism

Capitalism

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

The Most Secret Memory of Men

Presented by:Sandra Folie

Racism

Colonialism

Postcolonialism

African Authors in Europe

Literary Market

Zofia Nałkowska

Romans Teresy Hennert

The Romance of Teresa Hennert

Presented by:Dawid Borucki

Feminism

Military

Marxism

Interwar period

Psychological fiction

Romance

Janko Polić Kamov

Isušena kaljuža

The Dried-out Mire

Presented by:Andrea Milanko

Herta Müller

Atemschaukel

The Hunger Angel

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Internment

Prison Fiction

Collective Memory

Gulag

Vladan Desnica

Zimsko ljetovanje

The Winter Summer Vacation

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Wars

Racism

Balkanism

Class Hegemony

Second World War

Yugoslavia

Materials

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Video

Thinking the Political Workshop - part 3

By: Mark Devenney, Tanay Gandhi, Ricardo Camargo Brito

Working Paper

Alexandra Irimia: “Bureaucracies of Memory. Institutionalized History in Four Contemporary European Novels.” & Stephen Shapiro: “Response to Alexandra Irimia.”

By: Alexandra Irimia, Stephen Shapiro

Video

Political Novel through Migrant Info Point's Eyes – Interview with Alicja Skrzypczak and Marta Kowalczyk

By: Marta Kowalczyk, Alicja Skrzypczak

Video

Migration in the Age of Anthropocene - Interview with Mark Devenney

By: Dawid Borucki, Mark Devenney

Reading Group Resources

Questions for Reading Groups

By: Sarah Colvin, Tara Talwar Windsor

Article

Ivana Perica and Aurore Peyroles: Who’s afraid of the political novel? An introduction

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Topics

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Electronic Literature

Political Disenchantment

Partisans

African Authors in Europe

Slavery