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
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
And the are controvers contrt could be right in your pocket. We begin tonight with a growing divide between the u. S. And israel. A new Magazine Article reports an unidentified u. S. Official directed a crude insult at the israeli Prime Minister, it is a term we choose not to use on the air but there has been a lot of name calling most of it over the expansion of israeli settlements. Nick schifrin reports. Bmentbenjamin netanyahu visid the knesset. Were i not to defend the state of israel were i thought to insist vigorously on our national and security interests they would not be attacking me. And despite all of the attacks i suffer i will continue to defend our country. I will continue to defend the citizens of israel. There is no love lost between the u. S. And israel right now. Last week the defense minister went to washington and secretary of state john kerry and others refused to see him, because he referred to the secretary as messianic. Now, most of the tension right now is over