Indonesian Notebook

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.  

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