Indonesian Notebook A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference

"Indonesian Notebook 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) "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, Indonesian Notebook instead 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) "Rigorously researched and beautifully composed." - Taomo Zhou (Southeast Asian Studies)