Indonesian notebook : a sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference / editors, Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher.

Author(s): Foulcher, Keith | Roberts, Brian Russell | Wright, Richard, 1908-1960

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Main Title
Indonesian notebook : a sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference
Author(s)
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Foulcher, Keith
Roberts, Brian Russell
Publisher
Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2016.
Collation
xxiv, 262 pages : illustrations
24 cm.
Summary
Indonesian Notebook contains myriad documents by Indonesian writers, intellectuals, and reporters that provide the largely absent Indonesian perspectives of the 1955 Bandung Conference and of Richard Wright's activities there, adding new depths to the understandings of the conference. It also includes a newly discovered lecture by Wright.
ISBN
9780822360667
Dewey Class
341.247
Contents
The Indonesian embassy's Cultural life of Indonesia (excerpts) (1951) --
Pramoedya Ananta Toer's "The definition of literature and the question of beauty" (1952) --
S.M. Ardan's "Pramoedya heads overseas" (1953) --
De Preangerbode's review of The outsider (1954) --
Beb Vuyk's "Stories in the modern manner" (1955) --
A sheaf of newspaper articles : Richard Wright in Indonesia's daily press (1955) --
Mochtar Lubis's "A list of Indonesian writers and artists" (1955) --
Gelanggang's "A conversation with Richard Wright" (1955) --
Konfrontasi's "Synopsis" of Wright's "American Negro writing" (1955) --
Richard Wright's "The artist and his problems" (1955) --
Anas Maʼruf's "Richard Wright in Indonesia" (1955) --
Beb Vuyk's "Black power" (1955) --
Beb Vuyk's "H. Creekmore and protest novels" (1955) --
Asrul Sani's "Richard Wright : the artist turned intellectual" (1956) --
Frits Kandou's "Richard Wright's impressions of Indonesia" (1956) --
Beb Vuyk's "A weekend with Richard Wright" (1960) --
Goenawan Mohamad's "Politicians" (1977) --
Seno Joko Suyono's "A forgotten hotel" (2005) --
Afterword. Big history, little history, interstitial history : on the tightrope between polyvocality and lingua franca.
Language
English
Subject
Afro-Asian politics -- Congresses.
Asian-African Conference (1st : 1955 : Bandung, Indonesia) -- Influence
BRN
9248

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