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... In May 1956, exactly one year after Wright’s departure from Indonesia, the newsletter of the Indonesian Council for Deliberations on National Culture published an extended series of extracts from the French translation of Wright’s book The Color Curtain , retranslated into Indonesian...

... Richard Wright’s The Color Curtain , with its genesis status in Afro-Asian studies and reception as prophetic of major concerns of postcolonial and transnational literary and cultural studies, has come to supplant the largely unknown historical archive that surrounds Wright’s 1955 Indonesian...

... article has been overlooked by commentators on The Color Curtain and missummarized by Wright’s biographers and bibliographers. It offers an intimate view of the literary and cultural exchanges enabled by Wright’s attendance at the Bandung Conference, from the perspective of someone other than Wright...

... sources included in this book has figured in the extensive body of scholarship surrounding Wright’s own English-language account of the Bandung Conference, The Color Curtain . Translating and publishing these texts in English means adopting the medium of a historically contingent lingua franca to provide...

... year after Wright’s departure from Indonesia, the newsletter of the Indonesian Council for Deliberations on National Culture published an extended series of extracts from the French translation of Wright’s book The Color Curtain , retranslated into Indonesian. Indonesian readers were thus informed...

... By the 1970s, there was little if any cultural memory of the resentments felt by Indonesian writers and intellectuals of the 1950s toward Wright’s representation of Indonesia and Indonesians in The Color Curtain . In 1977 Goenawan Mohamad, a prominent younger generation writer and intellectual...

... to the experiences of a previous generation of African American literary exiles, including Victor Séjour and the writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance, which Anas had learned of from the 1949 anthology The Poetry of the Negro 1746–1949 , edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps. jazz The Color...

... Referencing The Color Curtain rather than the Indonesian accounts of Wright’s Indonesian travels, Seno’s 2005 commemorative article reminds Indonesian readers of Wright’s prominent presence among the band of international journalists who covered the Bandung Conference fifty years previously...

... of African American literary exiles, including Victor Séjour and the writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance, which Anas had learned of from the 1949 anthology The Poetry of the Negro 1746–1949 , edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps. jazz The Color Curtain expatriate writers Harlem...