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Art and Authoritarianism: Resistant Fiction in an Age of Post-Truth

Caponeu event

04.11.2025 - 04.11.2025

An evening for readers and book groups with Professor Sarah Colvin

Recording now available!

Tuesday 4 November 2025, 7.30pm (GMT) at Jesus College Cambridge and online

 

“The imagination … is central to the cultural production of revolutionary movements”
(Lola Olufemi)

Is art a reason to hope when authoritarianism looms? Can a novel actually change anything? How is fiction different from post-truth? These and other questions will be asked and answered as Sarah Colvin introduces her new book Literature and Epistemic Injustice: Power and Resistance in the Contemporary Novel (Routledge) and a range of contemporary novels from around the world. 

Watch back here: https://youtu.be/-cymCrnusaA?si=5aDRb8OjsYHblHIV

 

Related topics

Solidarity

Authoritarianism

Democracy

Fiction

Political resistance

Novel

book club

Related collections

Politics of literature • Political novel • Fiction • book club

Resources for Reading Groups

A key focus of the CAPONEU project has been to produce materials on political novels for community reading groups and to organize book clubs across Europe. This collection brings together resources and reports on those activities which will be useful for anyone who runs or attends a reading group.

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Reading Groups