Millar’s Forms of Disappointment is a unique comparative analysis of a body of works produced in the post–Cold War period. The book revisits the fraught intervention of Cuba in Angola by showing how post-Soviet cultural production demystifies the official redemptive narrative of Cuban heroism and how the fictional representation of this traumatic event has been overlooked by critics. It also sheds light on the post-Soviet Cuban experience, which has been the object of significant scholarship that the monograph enhances in exciting and novel ways. By focusing on the Global South instead of the customary North-South relationship favored by Cuba experts, the book contributes significantly to the fields of Cuban, African, and Latin American studies. Millar constructs her argument by seamlessly navigating literary canons from different cultural traditions and by showing an exceptional mastery of the genealogy of literary tropes. This comparativist prism allows for a much more nuanced reading that...
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