... 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...

... Although Wright visited Indonesia as a freelance journalist covering the Bandung Conference, his own activities and experiences in Indonesia were also extensively reported in sections of the Indonesian press. From criticism of Wright’s substandard hotel accommodation on his arrival in Jakarta...

... After the Bandung conference, Wright gave an extended interview for the cultural column Gelanggang , one of the main mouthpieces for the writers and intellectuals with whom Wright associated in Indonesia. Much of the interview deals with Wright’s development as a writer and his views...

... In an article published soon after Wright left Indonesia, Anas Ma’ruf reported on discussions that took place between Wright and the audiences he addressed in various venues around Jakarta. The article indicates both that Anas was aware of Wright’s intention to publish an account of his...

... In a 1956 review of Wright’s novel The Outsider , Asrul Sani recalls his personal encounters with Wright one year earlier and restates his admiration for him as a true artist. However, his review is critical of Wright’s 1953 novel, because in Asrul’s judgment Wright is so fixated on advancing...

... Having fled to the Netherlands under increasingly hostile political conditions in Indonesia, Beb Vuyk published the most detailed and significant account of Wright’s Indonesian travels by any of his interlocutors in Indonesia in 1960 in the magazine Vrij Nederland . Until now, her two-part...

...In the Wake of Wright’s Indonesian Travels Less than a month after Wright left Indonesia, Beb Vuyk published a review of Black Power , 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... Wright spent the weekend before his departure from Indonesia as a guest of the Konfrontasi Study Club at the mountain villa of the magazine’s founder and principal editor, Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana. Wright’s lecture to the Study Club was later published in English in Konfrontasi...