{"product_id":"indonesian-notebook-9780822360667","title":"Indonesian Notebook","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndonesian Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e contains myriad documents by Indonesian writers, intellectuals, and reporters that provide the largely absent Indonesian perspectives of the 1955 Bandung Conference and of Richard Wright's activities there, adding new depths to the understandings of the conference. It also includes a newly discovered lecture by Wright. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIndonesian Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e fills out the broader picture of Wright and the conference. It performs a valuable service ... and should encourage further scholarly digging in locales and languages affected by the conference.\" -- Jason Parker * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\"In U.S. histories, the meanings of the term the Third World is often rendered as stable. Non-American actors, too, sometimes remain only a spectral presence. By insisting that Indonesian intellectuals and Wright co-produced a different kind of Bandung spirit, \u003ci\u003eIndonesian Notebook \u003c\/i\u003einstead underscores the contingencies of what one historian rightly calls “the complex and uneven geographies of the postcolonial cold war world.” In doing so it can help us begin to reimagine the politics, and the poetics, of the Third World.\" -- Mark Philip Bradley * Modern American History *\u003cbr\u003e\"Rigorously researched and beautifully composed.\" -- Taomo Zhou * Southeast Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations  xv\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography of Translated and Republished Sources  xvii\u003cbr\u003e On the Translations  xxi\u003cbr\u003e On Spelling and Personal Names  xxiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Richard Wright on the Bandung Conference, Modern Indonesia on Richard Wright  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Transnational Crosscurrents\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Indonesian Embassy's \u003ci\u003eCultural Life of Indonesia\u003c\/i\u003e (Excerpts) (1951)  35\u003cbr\u003e 2. Pramoedya Ananta Toer's \"The Definition of Literature and the Question of Beauty\" (1952)  43\u003cbr\u003e 3. S. M. Ardan's \"Pramoedya Heads Overseas\" (1953)  50\u003cbr\u003e 4. \u003ci\u003eDe Preangerbode\u003c\/i\u003e's Review of \u003ci\u003eThe Outsider\u003c\/i\u003e (1954)  56\u003cbr\u003e 5. Beb Vuyk's \"Stories in the Modern Manner\" (1955)  59\u003cbr\u003e Part II. An Asian-African Encounter\u003cbr\u003e 6. A Sheaf of Newspaper Articles: Richard Wright in Indonesia's Daily Press (1955)  67\u003cbr\u003e 7. Mochtar Lubis's \"A List of Indonesian Writers and Artists\" (1955)  89\u003cbr\u003e 8. \u003ci\u003eGelanggang\u003c\/i\u003e's \"A Conversation with Richard Wright\" (1955)  95\u003cbr\u003e 9. \u003ci\u003eKonfrontasi\u003c\/i\u003e's \"Synopsis\" of Wright's \"American Negro Writing\" (1955)  106\u003cbr\u003e 10. Richard Wright's \"The Artist and His Problems\" (1955)  122\u003cbr\u003e 11. Anas Ma'ruf's \"Richard Wright in Indonesia\" (1955)  138\u003cbr\u003e Part III. In the Wake of Wright's Indonesian Travels\u003cbr\u003e 12. Beb Vuyk's \"Black Power\" (1955)  145\u003cbr\u003e 13. Beb Vuyk's \"H. Creekmore and Prostest Novels\" (1955)  152\u003cbr\u003e 14. Asrul Sani's \"Richard Wright: The Artist Turned Intellectual\" (1956)  159\u003cbr\u003e 15. Frits Kandou's \"Richard Wright's Impressions of Indonesia\" (1956)  171\u003cbr\u003e 16. Beb Vuyk's \"A Weekend with Richard Wright\" (1960)  182\u003cbr\u003e 17. Goenawan Mohamad's \"Politicians\" (1977)  207\u003cbr\u003e 18. Seno Joko Suyono's \"A Forgotten Hotel\" (2005)  214\u003cbr\u003e Afterword. Big History, Little History, Interstitial History: On the Tightrope between Polyvocality and Lingua Franca  229\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited  239\u003cbr\u003e Index  253","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406093525335,"sku":"9780822360667","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822360667.jpg?v=1730494502","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/indonesian-notebook-9780822360667","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}