Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections

Index

Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 128 Abrahams, Peter, 20, 26, 182, 185, 188 Accra: funerals, 51; lack of urban amenities, 50 Adadevo, Mr., 9 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 76 Africa: as ahistorical, 30; as bestial, 31; as the dark continent, 11; as militarized, 70; as nature, 32; as the Other, 24, 37, 43; as Otherness, 29; as pastoral, 47; as primal, 45; as primitive, 14, 28, 31; as primordial and colonial, 31 African American: as hybrid subject, 70; as marginality, 23; as slave, 172 African customs: ancestral worship, 68; funerals, 56; hotels, 54; religion, 13, 68; village life, 48 African Morning Post, 38 African people: beggars, 33; body, 32; children, 55; dancers, 8, 11; kinship to Zen Buddhism, 68; male dancers, 13; nudity, 48, 55; primal outlook, 65, 68; sexuality, 48; tribal mind, 36; women, 48; women dancers, 37; women’s allegiance to Nkrumah, 33 African, The, 181 African, the: as barbaric, 33; as childish, 29; as foreign, 25; as the Other, 24, 27, 28, 98; as Otherness, 26; as pagan, 24; as prehistoric man, 12; as primitive, 24 Akan people, 11 Alienation, as political action, 7 All People’s Conference, 185 American Communist Party, 137 American Hunger, 133 American Information Committee on Race and Caste, 80, 191, 195 American Society of African Culture, 80 American South, 48 American Writer’s Congress 1937, 158 Angelou, Maya, 8, 9, 20 Annales School, 130 Ansah, Mr., 48 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 18 Argentina, 136, 166 Armah, Ayi Kwei, 57 Ashanti: Golden Stool, 53; kingdom, 65; people, 54, 64, 65 Asian technology, 73 Asian, the: Other, 97; uneducated, 72; westernized, 72 Aswell, Edward, 85, 188, 204 231 Index Authenticating: devices, 28, 29; documents, 42 Azevedo, Mario, 182 Baako, Mr., 35 Bahasa Indonesia, 109 Bahktin, Mikhail, 58 Baldwin, James, 189 Bandung Conference, 14, 69, 72, 73, 78, 81, 84, 89, 99, 111, 121; communiqué, 76, 100; sponsors, 89, 92. See also specific essays on The Color Curtain Baraka, Amiri, 37 Barcelona, 123, 159 Barrow, John, 31, 95 Basho the poet, 66, 67 Bennett, Arnold, 31, 46 Berlin Conference 1884–85, 182, 185, 209 Bibiani, 17 Binaries: dominate/subordinate, 43; foreigner/native, 212; irrational/primitive, 192, 193; irreconcilable, 15; nature/culture, 24; rational/irrational, 14; science/religion, 14; Self/Other, 22, 39, 170, 212; strange/ familiar, 212; Western/African, 14; the West/the Rest, 12, 24; whiteness/ blackness, 40 Black Metropolis, 88, 188, 190 Black Moslems, 212 Black Power Movement, 3, 4 Black Virgin, 127 Blake, William, 212 Blount, Gil, 6 Blyth, R. H., 124 Boas, Frantz, 124, 145 Botso, Kojo, 113 Briffault, Robert, 28, 29 Brignano, Russell C., 71 Brooks, Gwendolyn, 20 Brown, William Wells, x Buddha, Gautama: the prophet, 65; Buddhism, 65 Bull worship, 138 Bullfighting, 143, 158, 159, 160, 162; sexuality, 163 Burgum, Edwin Berry, 158, 159 Burns, Ben, 190 Butterfield, Stephen, 165, 166, 170 Campbell, James, 20 Camus, Albert, 20 Capitalism, 27, 72 Cappetti, Carla, 132, 144 Carr, Raymond, 121 Cayton, Horace R., 71, 88, 188; wife’s illness, 197 Césaire, Aimé, 26 Chamaco, 142, 159, 160 Chicago, Ill.: School of Sociology, 121, 131, 132, 133; Southside Writer’s Club, 158 Christian Century, 126 Christianborg, 8, 48 Claasen, Hilde, 190 Clifford, James, 101, 119, 122, 128, 131, 202, 203 Cobb, Nina Kressner, 26 Collier, John, 142 Communism, 5, 27; and anti-Communists in Moslem countries, 73; and Catholicism, 133; and Christianity, 135; and Communists, 5, 6; and non-threat to Asia, 74 Communist China, 70, 89 Congress of Writers and Artists 1956, 100, 192, 194 Conrad, Joseph, 11, 31, 32, 203 Convention People’s Party, 3, 14, 35, 185 Cook, Mercer, 192, 204 Crapanzano, Vincent, 128 Cudjoe, Mrs., 35 Cullen, Countee, 28, 29, 45 Daily Worker, 79 Damon, Cross, 5, 6, 7, 77, 127, 166, 167 Daniel, E. Valentine, 96, 97 Danquah, J. B., 10, 13, 36, 186; books, 39, 188; opponent of Nkrumah, 10; with United Nations, 186 232 Index Dark Child, The, 188 Davidson, Basil, 183 Davis, John A., 80, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 202, 206 De Certeau, Michel, 24 De Sabonière, Margrit, 190 Democracy, 72; in Asia, 70 Diop, Alioune, 190, 192, 194, 195; founder of Présence Africaine, 26; Mrs. Diop, 192 Dobson, Dennis, Ltd., 85, 86, 87, 88 Dorst, John, 124 Double consciousness, 30, 58, 121 Douglass, Frederick, x, 42; Narrative, 29 Drake, St. Clair, 88, 188, 189, 212; as passing black, 190 Du Bois, W. E. B., 25, 107...