... This chapter sets the scene for Wright’s Indonesian encounters through a series of excerpts taken from the “Language and Literature” section of a booklet published by the Indonesian Embassy in Washington, DC, in 1951. The booklet’s foreword was written by Ali Sastroamidjojo, at that time...

... Indonesian literature nationalism universal humanism literature and diplomacy ...

... The Outsider existentialism intellectualism Indonesian literature exile ...

... Indonesian literature Pramoedya Ananta Toer Richard Wright Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana Asrul Sani ...

... Zhou Enlai White Man, Listen! East-West relations Indonesian literature Afro-Asian ...

...Transnational Crosscurrents This chapter sets the scene for Wright’s Indonesian encounters through a series of excerpts taken from the “Language and Literature” section of a booklet published by the Indonesian Embassy in Washington, DC, in 1951. The booklet’s foreword was written by Ali...

... had encountered in discussions with his Indonesian hosts. Zhou Enlai White Man, Listen! East-West relations Indonesian literature Afro-Asian ...

... 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. Indonesian literature Pramoedya Ananta Toer Richard Wright Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana Asrul Sani After the Bandung conference...

... of protest literature, which Wright had raised in his Indonesian lectures. Mistakenly identifying Creekmore as an African American writer, Vuyk characterizes his novel as an inferior imitation of Wright’s “inspirational” Black Boy and Native Son , suggesting that Creekmore wrote The Chain in the Heart...

.... Indonesian literature Pramoedya Ananta Toer Richard Wright Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana Asrul Sani ...

... come to know through his personal friendship with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. For Wright as an artist, Asrul Sani sees this turn to intellectualism as a serious failure of judgment. The Outsider existentialism intellectualism Indonesian literature exile ...

... exchange between writers from different national literary traditions and in making known developments in world literature, a characteristic of the burgeoning number of Indonesian “little magazines” at this time. The review also endorses the decision by the editors of Partisan Review not to allow art...

... illustrates the Indonesian interest at this time in existentialism, particularly its humanist dimensions, which are seen to resonate with the Indonesian aesthetic philosophy of universal humanism. Wright and his unnamed Indonesian interviewer find common ground in the issue of existentialism, although each...

... Vuyk’s November 1955 review of The Chain in the Heart by Hubert Creekmore extends the Indonesian engagement with the theme of protest literature, which Wright had raised in his Indonesian lectures. Mistakenly identifying Creekmore as an African American writer, Vuyk characterizes his novel...

... Western and traditional Indonesian concepts of beauty in literature. Pramoedya identifies and praises a quality in Wright’s writing that he defines as “bitter realism,” a refusal to allow the reader to respond sentimentally to the depiction of suffering and oppression. Pramoedya’s admiration for Wright...

... Shifting from texts to painting to taste over three novels, Laksmi Pamuntjak, whose work is discussed in this chapter, traces seventy years of Indonesian psychosocial history. Pamuntjak invokes daemonic or charismatic figures and Cold War hauntologies, but also Islamist demands, bureaucratic...

... in Indonesia’s Omnibus Law Protest,” Karlina Octaviany grapples with how Indonesian ARMY’s social media practices created a space to protest a controversial Omnibus Law in 2020 that proposed the removal of labor protections and rights. In the midst of a pandemic, Indonesian ARMY’s activities accelerated...

... Partisan Review transnationalism world literature little magazines ...

... existentialism universal humanism Joseph Conrad Russian literature expatriates in Paris ...

... protest novel African American literature popular fiction James Baldwin African American expatriates ...