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.
In the Wake of Wright’s Indonesian Travels
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Published:March 2016
Less than a month after Wright left Indonesia, Beb Vuyk published a review of BlackPower, Wright’s African travelogue, which had been the subject of an exchange between Wright and Vuyk during an informal meeting while Wright was in Indonesia. Vuyk distrusted Black Power’s premise of an emotional connection between Wright and the land of his ancestors, averring that Wright had no greater ties to the Gold Coast than those of white Americans to the European countries they visited in large numbers in search of their ancestors’ birthplaces. Cautioning readers to be aware that Wright viewed Africa through...
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