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
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
Helped shape this country. Just go to our website cspan. Org books that shaped america. Click the view input tab and select record video. In 30 seconds or ls tell us your pick and why. Be sure to watch books that shaped america live review monday at 9 p. M. Eastern on cspan. I am Kevin Butterfield the correct of the john w. Kluge center at the library of congress. Its my great pleasure to introduce todays speakers. The clubbyy senate by the way is one of the sponsors of this years festival. We are proud to help bring americas most beloved writers here to join us. The clubby center works to bring scholars to work in the collections of the library of congress for up to a year to study intensively and extensively, and to produce great works of the sort you get to hear about at the National Book festival. Welcome to everyone whos joining us live on cspan today. Were proud to partner with cspan again this year for todayss event. Our next Program Features r. K. Russell in conversation with r
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The balkans, which have always been one of europes most troubled regions, are boiling over again, this time with bosnia and herzegovina, one of the poorest countries in europe with its capital in sarajevo, a population of 3. 5 million, more than half bosnia. The country is a candidate member of the European Union and a nato partner. Bosnia and herzegovina is a remnant of the former socialist yugoslavia, where bosniaks, montenegrins, croats, Kosovo Albanians and serbs coexisted peacefully after world war ii. But after the west, led by the united states, launched an operation to collapse yugoslavia, the country was engulfed bloody me. In bosnia and herzegovina, the struggle was especially fierce, the serbs killed the bosnians, and they slaughtered the serbs without a twinge of conscience. According to the most conservative estimates, up to 100 thousand people died there during the 5 years of the war. Only at the end of 1995, a fragile peace was achieved in the region, under the dayton ag