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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roberts, Brian Russell, editor.

Foulcher, Keith, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Travel--Indonesia.

Wright, Richard.

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Political and social views.

Asian-African Conference--(1st : 1955 : Bandung, Indonesia)--Influence.

Asian-African Conference.

Afro-Asian politics--Congresses.

Afro-Asian politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

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.

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).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822374640

0822374641

OCLC:

936114978