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Amélie Nothomb

Le Sabotage Amoureux

Loving sabotage

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

Diplomacy

Communism

Cold War

People's Republic of China

Natasha Brown

Assembly

Presented by:Polina Mackay

Cancer

Racism

United Kingdom

Intersectional Politics

Adania Shibli

Minor Detail

تفصيل ثانوي (Tafṣīl Ṯānawī)

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Nakba

Cancellation

Deplatforming

Tibor Déry

G. A. úr X-ben

Mr. G. A. in X

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Torborg Nedreaas

Av måneskinn gror det ingenting

Nothing Grows by Moonlight

Presented by:Øyvind Soldal Rasmussen

Feminism

Female Body

Patriarchy

Ivo Brešan

Ispovijedi nekarakternog čovjeka

Confessions of an Amoral Man

Presented by:Andrea Milanko

Louis Aragon

La Semaine sainte

Holy Week

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Commitment

Fidelity

Antagonism

19th century

Military

Civil War

Géza Ottlik

Iskola a határon

School at the Frontier

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ragazzi di vita

The Street Kids

Presented by:Pietro Turinetti

Class

Second World War

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Capitalism

Cold War

Zofia Nałkowska

Romans Teresy Hennert

The Romance of Teresa Hennert

Presented by:Dawid Borucki

Feminism

Military

Marxism

Interwar period

Romance

Daša Drndić

Canzone di guerra: nove davorije

Canzone di guerra

Presented by:Mirela Dakić

Gender

Migrations

Totalitarianism

Second World War

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Yugoslavia

Pajtim Statovci

Kissani Jugoslavia

My Cat Yugoslavia

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Exile

Identity

Yugoslavia

Materials

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Working Paper

“Bureaucracies of Memory. Institutionalized History in Four Contemporary European Novels” & “Response”

By: Alexandra Irimia, Stephen Shapiro

Video

Workshop: Literary Politics and Geopolitics

By: Zrinka Božić, Mark Devenney, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Charlotte Woodford, Nenad Ivić, Korbinian Lindel, Lisa Katharina Schmitz, Ekaterina Vassilieva, Fanny Wehner, Anna Björk Einarsdóttir, Max Roehl, Benjamin Kohlmann, Natalya Bekhta, Louis Aubry, Marina Sivak

Conference Collection

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

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Johanna-Charlotte Horst, Kyung-Ho Cha

Article

From Poland with love: Politics of queerness in the time of neoliberal post-socialism (the case of Michał Witkowski)

By: Błażej Warkocki

Reading Group Resources

How to Start a Reading Group

By: Tara Talwar Windsor, Sarah Colvin

Working Paper

Impotent Forms: "Crabwalk" and the Political Novel

By: Sophie Salvo

Topics

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Cultural Politics

collective

Exile

Form

Paramilitarism

Commitment