Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference
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.
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.
Richard Wright’s “The Artist and His Problems” (1955)
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Published:March 2016
Just before he left Indonesia, Wright delivered a lecture at the Balai Budaja in Jakarta that was later published in Indonesian translation in the newspaper Indonesia Raya. The Indonesian-language version of the lecture appears to be a more polished, sometimes redacted version of a set of typewritten notes, now held by Yale University’s Beinecke Library, that Wright made in preparation for a lecture in Indonesia. Neither version has previously been published in English. The text presented here draws on both the Indonesian-language version and the sections of Wright’s notes that are omitted from it; possible reasons for the omissions...
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