Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference

Author:   Brian Russell Roberts ,  Keith Foulcher
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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9780822360513


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 April 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Brian Russell Roberts ,  Keith Foulcher
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780822360513


ISBN 10:   0822360519
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 April 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Acknowledgments  ix Abbreviations  xv Bibliography of Translated and Republished Sources  xvii On the Translations  xxi On Spelling and Personal Names  xxiii Introduction. Richard Wright on the Bandung Conference, Modern Indonesia on Richard Wright  1 Part I. Transnational Crosscurrents 1. The Indonesian Embassy's Cultural Life of Indonesia (Excerpts) (1951)  35 2. Pramoedya Ananta Toer's ""The Definition of Literature and the Question of Beauty"" (1952)  43 3. S. M. Ardan's ""Pramoedya Heads Overseas"" (1953)  50 4. De Preangerbode's Review of The Outsider (1954)  56 5. Beb Vuyk's ""Stories in the Modern Manner"" (1955)  59 Part II. An Asian-African Encounter 6. A Sheaf of Newspaper Articles: Richard Wright in Indonesia's Daily Press (1955)  67 7. Mochtar Lubis's ""A List of Indonesian Writers and Artists"" (1955)  89 8. Gelanggang's ""A Conversation with Richard Wright"" (1955)  95 9. Konfrontasi's ""Synopsis"" of Wright's ""American Negro Writing"" (1955)  106 10. Richard Wright's ""The Artist and His Problems"" (1955)  122 11. Anas Ma'ruf's ""Richard Wright in Indonesia"" (1955)  138 Part III. In the Wake of Wright's Indonesian Travels 12. Beb Vuyk's ""Black Power"" (1955)  145 13. Beb Vuyk's ""H. Creekmore and Prostest Novels"" (1955)  152 14. Asrul Sani's ""Richard Wright: The Artist Turned Intellectual"" (1956)  159 15. Frits Kandou's ""Richard Wright's Impressions of Indonesia"" (1956)  171 16. Beb Vuyk's ""A Weekend with Richard Wright"" (1960)  182 17. Goenawan Mohamad's ""Politicians"" (1977)  207 18. Seno Joko Suyono's ""A Forgotten Hotel"" (2005)  214 Afterword. Big History, Little History, Interstitial History: On the Tightrope between Polyvocality and Lingua Franca  229 Works Cited  239 Index  253"

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In this ground-breaking account of Richard Wright and Bandung, Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher advance in fresh and unexpected ways our conversations on the postcoloniality of black histories in the West and the tangled legacies of white supremacy in Asian and African colonialism. Indonesian Notebook 's rich layering of Indonesian sources makes this book an indispensable addition to Wright scholarship and reminds us that the quest for equality must confront the stubborn local socio-economic realities throughout the globe. --Amritjit Singh, Langston Hughes Professor of English, Ohio University


An invaluable guide to Richard Wright and to a transnational American studies with new geographical coordinates. Gathering together the documents-Indonesian and Dutch as well as English-written before, during, and after Wright's participation in the 1955 Bandung Conference, Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher go behind and beyond The Color Curtain, giving us a fresh window on a key historical moment. -- Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University In this groundbreaking account of Richard Wright and Bandung, Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher advance in fresh and unexpected ways our conversations on the postcoloniality of black histories in the West and the tangled legacies of white supremacy in Asian and African colonialism. Indonesian Notebook's rich layering of Indonesian sources makes this book an indispensable addition to Wright scholarship and reminds us that the quest for equality must confront the stubborn local socioeconomic realities throughout the globe. -- Amritjit Singh, Langston Hughes Professor of English, Ohio University This notebook is a tour de force of comparative literary and cross-cultural historical interpretation. Through meticulous scholarship and lucid commentaries Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher pioneer an innovative approach to Indonesian and African American literatures without reference to cores, peripheries, canons, or English as anything other than a useful lingua franca. This brilliant book demonstrates why scholarly collaboration does the best job of excavating lost interactions between people, cultures, and languages during the big events of planetary history. -- Tony Day, Associate Senior Fellow, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore


This notebook is a tour de force of comparative literary and cross-cultural historical interpretation. Through meticulous scholarship and lucid commentaries Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher pioneer an innovative approach to Indonesian and African-American literatures without reference to cores, peripheries, canons, or English as anything other than a useful lingua franca. This brilliant book demonstrates why scholarly collaboration does the best job of excavating lost interactions between people, cultures, and languages during the big events of planetary history. --Tony Day, Associate Senior Fellow, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Insitute


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Brian Russell Roberts is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University and the author of Artistic Ambassadors: Literary and International Representation of the New Negro Era.  Keith Foulcher is Honorary Associate in the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney and the coeditor of Clearing a Space: Postcolonial Readings of Modern Indonesian Literature.  

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