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Cold War Reckonings: In the Shadow of Solzhenitsyn with Jini Kim Watson, NYU

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April 1, 2022

How did the Cold War shape political modernity in the decolonizing world, and what do literature and literary networks reveal about such political contestations and their afterlives? In this presentation, Kim gives an overview of her new book, "Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization" (Fordham UP, 2021), which examines cultural production that emerges from, and reflects upon, the entanglement of the Cold War and decolonization in East and Southeast Asia.

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  • Democratic Threats and Resilience

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  • EAP Media

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