Analyzes parallel developments in postCold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm disappointment and solidarity.In Forms of Disappointment Lanie Millar traces the legacies of antiimperial solidarity in Cuban and Angolan novels and films after 1989. Cubas intervention in Angolas postindependence civil war from 1976 to 1991 was its longest and most engaged internationalist project and left a profound mark on the culture of both nations. After the fall of the Berlin Wall Millar argues Cuban and Angolan writers and filmmakers responded to this collective history and adapted to new postsocialist realities in analogous ways developing what she characterizes as works of disappointment.