On Friday, January 29, 2-3 p.m., Dr. Lanie Millar will present from her recent book, Forms of Diasppointment: Cuban and Angolan Narrative after the Cold War (SUNY Press, 2019).  Forms of Disappointment traces the legacies of anti-imperial solidarity in Cuban and Angolan novels and films after 1989. Pushing past the binaries that tend to dominate histories of the Cold War and its aftermath, Millar gives priority to the perspectives of artists in the Global South, illuminating networks of anticolonial and racial solidarity and showing how their works not only reflect shared feelings of disappointment but also call for ethical gestures of empathy and reconciliation (language excerpted from the SUNY Press website).

Those interested in attending the event and joining in what is bound to be a fascinating discussion should contact David Wacks (wacks@uoregon.edu) for the Zoom link.