Political Novel and Class Distinctions
Caponeu event13.11.2025 - 14.11.2025
Location: The Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology AMU (Fredry 10, Poznań)
Organized by: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Magda Potok, Błażej Warkocki, Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković, Anna Gawarecka, Ewa Szperlik, Gerard Ronge (all Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Contact: gerron@amu.edu.pl
The workshop explored how the political novel recognizes, narrates, and theorizes class distinctions – from economic and social experience through political subjectivities to mechanisms of exclusion and avenues of mobility. We welcome both canonical approaches and innovative narrative forms that challenge entrenched hierarchies (e.g., labour and precarity, education and inherited capitals, class shame and aspiration, care and welfare, post-1989 transitions, and the aftershocks of economic crises).