Enhance and improve civic life. We have some events over the next few months that has National Book award finalist. For retail more information sign up for our email list. We have cspan book tv with us here please know you will be recorded and wait for the microphone and i like to take a moment to say thanks and so congratulations. [applause] now im pleased to introduce duncan white at the director studies at the university. And as a historian serving as a faculty associate of eurasian studies at harvard university. With history or literature here to discuss cold warriors. So we are so pleased to have them here tonight. Please me to welcome duncan white. [applause] we have five different microphones but i never met a microphone i did not like. Congratulations i love that we are presenting on the day of your publication. With 20 interviews this morning. So you call that a group biography so what is the hook. So the idea was to have a comprehensive history of the cold war and the cultura
Good evening everyone per good evening. Thank you for joining us tonight. On behalf of Harvard Bookstore welcome to this evenings event we are in conversation. For support programs to enhance and the lives of those in massachusetts. We have some National Book Award Finalist coming up. Please know youll be recorded and wait for the microphone to come. Then we will have a book signing right here at the stable. I like to take a moment to say thank you to coming for the Harvard Bookstore. [applause] now im very pleased to introduce tonight speakers. Duncan way is the history of literature professor and in the and as a historian for the soviet union with the professor of eurasiand studies also the director tonight they are here to discuss cold warrior that is praised that now more than never we need a book like this to remind us of the importance we are so pleased to have them here with us tonight please join me in welcoming our speakers. [applause] we have five different kinds of microphon
Bookstore in q2 this evenings event in camillus dash to enhance and improve civic life. We have some events over the next few months that has National Book award finalist. For retail more information sign up for our email list. We have cspan book tv with us here please know you will be recorded and wait for the microphone and i like to take a moment to say thanks and so congratulations. [applause] now im pleased to introduce duncan white at the director studies at the university. And as a historian serving as a faculty associate of eurasian studies at harvard university. With history or literature here to discuss cold warriors. So we are so pleased to have them here tonight. Please me to welcome duncan white. [applause] we have five different microphones but i never met a microphone i did not like. Congratulations i love that we are presenting on the day of your publication. With 20 interviews this morning. So you call that a group biography so what is the hook. So the idea was to have
And im going to be talking to you about my book today, the esthetic cold war, decolonization and, global literature. I want to thank the Commonwealth Institute of black studies for this event. Possible today. My project is about effect of the cold war, especially the effect of the competition between the United States and the soviet union on the literatures and the intellectual development of writing in the decolonizing world what was then called the third world is now called sometimes the developing world or the global south. So there have been lots of studies of cold war literature, most of them have focused on what happened in the United States and the soviet union, but as i started to do my research on this, i learned that the u. S. And soviet union in the competition between them had an incredible effect on Literary Development in other parts of the world, especially africa, asia and the caribbean, which were the focus of this book. Now of offering a sort of general overview and s
Literature. I want to thank the Commonwealth Institute of black studies for this event. Possible today. My project is about effect of the cold war, especially the effect of the competition between the United States and the soviet union on the literatures and the intellectual development of writing in the decolonizing world what was then called the third world is now called sometimes the developing world or the global south. So there have been lots of studies of cold war literature, most of them have focused on what happened in the United States and the soviet union, but as i started to do my research on this, i learned that the u. S. And soviet union in the competition between them had an incredible effect on Literary Development in other parts of the world, especially africa, asia and the caribbean, which were the focus of this book. Now of offering a sort of general overview and somatic instead of reading novels and plays and thinking about what is the effect of ideological competiti