Brian Russell Roberts is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University and the author of
Keith Foulcher is Honorary Associate in the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney and the coeditor of
Brian Russell Roberts is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University and the author of
Keith Foulcher is Honorary Associate in the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney and the coeditor of
Mochtar Lubis’s “A List of Indonesian Writers and Artists” (1955)
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Published:March 2016
2016. "Mochtar Lubis’s “A List of Indonesian Writers and Artists” (1955)", Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference, Brian Russell Roberts, Keith Foulcher
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A list of potential contacts among Indonesian writers and artists, apparently given to Wright by his host, Mochtar Lubis, in the days after his arrival in Jakarta, includes names and addresses of some of the writers Wright would come to know most intimately during his stay in Indonesia, as well as others he apparently did not meet. The most prominent of the latter names is Pramoedya Ananta Toer, whose name and address are added to the typewritten list in Mochtar’s handwriting, perhaps as an afterthought. The absence of any record of a meeting between Wright and Pramoedya, who admired Wright and with whom he had much in common, was probably due to both ideological and personal factors. At this time, Pramoedya was moving away from the Western-oriented group of writers with whom Wright was most closely associated in Indonesia, and toward whom Pramoedya harbored a number of personal animosities.
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